The Sidney E Frank Foundation
The Sidney E. Frank Foundation is a private foundation supporting arts, education, and medical/life sciences. The site lists program areas and featured grantees and is the URL shown on the foundation’s IRS Form 990.
Source: Website · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
Established arts, education, museum, or higher-education organizations (or medical/life-sciences institutions) with demonstrated programmatic fit and, ideally, an existing New York presence or credible introduction to the foundation.
Good Fit
- • Clear alignment with arts, education, or medical/life-sciences program areas noted on the foundation website.
- • Organizational scale that matches the foundation's history of multi-thousand- and multi-million-dollar awards.
- • A New York program or partnership, or the ability to demonstrate impact in New York.
- • Existing relationships or intermediaries who can make introductions or recommend the organization.
Geography
Grants in the latest year went to roughly 20 states, indicating a multi-state footprint, although about 85% of grant dollars were concentrated in New York.
Recipient Variety
The latest year shows a broad recipient set (122 distinct organizations and 153 grants) across many program types, with a mix of small awards and several large multi-hundred-thousand to million-dollar grants.
New Applicants
Public guidance indicates proposals are by invitation, which lowers the chance an unfamiliar applicant will be selected, but the observed emergence of 42 new recipients in the latest year shows the foundation does add new grantees, so direct openness cannot be judged as fully closed.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
