Regina Frankenberg directed that the remainder of her estate be used to establish a foundation to support organizations and programs that promote the care, conservation, treatment, well-being and prevention of cruelty to animals.
Funding Interests:
Animal welfare, through two focus areas:
The Foundation typically does not provide general operating support.
Geographic Focus:
Restrictions:
No grants are made to individuals or private foundations or for matching gifts or loans. Organizations requesting support must have annual operating budgets of $250,000 or more. Organizations receiving support must not engage in or supply animals for vivisection. The Foundation does not provide support for projects in which animals are held in captivity and also does not make grants to wildlife sanctuaries.
Eligibility:
Organizations must be classified by the Internal Revenue Service as public charities and tax-exempt under section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
Grant Cycle:
The annual application deadline is July 1. If July 1 falls on a weekend, the deadline is the next business day. Decisions are made before the Foundation’s fiscal year end, which is December 31.
Type of Support:
Project, capital and capacity building
JPMorgan Chase Relationship:
Sole trustee
Please include the following items in your organization’s request:
1. Proposal (maximum of three pages) which includes:
a. Overview of the organization (i.e., primary goals, needs or problems being addressed, population served)
b. Description of the project for which you are seeking support
i. Statement of purpose and the needs being addressed by the project
ii. Population served and how they will benefit from the project
iii. Project timeline/anticipated project duration
c. Brief biography of the executive director and key project staff
2. Project budget
a. If it is a two-year request, please include a two-year projected budget
b. Include a list of foundation, corporate and other support applied to the budget
3. Current fiscal year organizational budget
a. also include a projected budget for upcoming year (if available)
b. indicate if the organization has an endowment
i. quote the most recent value of the corpus
ii. indicate if the funds are permanently restricted or board restricted
4. List of foundation and corporate supporters
a. include a list of funders for the current fiscal year
b. also provide a list from the most recently completed fiscal year
c. include foundation and corporation names and amounts
Please note:
All applications to the
Regina Bauer Frankenberg Foundation
must be submitted online.
Total contributions in 2024: $892,000
Animal Care Centers of NYC, New York, NY
$25,000 to support the Community Pets Program
AMA Animal Rescue, Brooklyn, NY
$10,000 for Vital Shelter Repair Projects
Bideawee, Inc, New York, NY
$50,000 as the first installment for the Community Initiatives Program
Brooklyn Bridge Animal Welfare Coalition, Inc, Brooklyn, NY
$60,000 as the first installment for the 2025-2026 Spay Neuter Fund
Pets Are Wonderful Support, New York, NY
$50,000 for the Preserving Families Project
African People and Wildlife Fund, Bernardsville, NJ
$40,000 as the first installment for conserving African Elephants in Tanzania’s Greater Mkomazi Landscape
Blackfoot Challenge, Ovando, MT
$50,000 as the first installment for innovations for living with wolves
Conservation Law Foundation, Boston, MA
$50,000 as the final installment for Atlantic Salmon and river restoration in Maine
Defenders of Wildlife, Washington, DC
$20,000 for a marking campaign to save the Pinyon Jay
Fauna and Flora International USA, Inc, Washington DC
$40,000 as the first installment for building sustainable capacity to protect sturgeon
Indiana Forest Alliance, Inc, Indianapolis, IN
$40,000 for efforts to save the Eastern Hellbender
International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, WI
$25,000 as the final installment for understanding Whopping Crane use of new geographic areas and alternative habitats to species recovery
International Snow Leopard Trust, Seattle, WA
$30,000 as the first installment to investigate space use and activity patterns of Ibex
International Union for Conservation of Nature, US, Washington, DC
$12,000 to help publish a comprehensive assessment of freshwater fishes
NatureServe, Arlington, VA
$75,000 as the final installment for the Conservation Status Review Project
Oikonos – Ecosystem Knowledge, Kailua, HI
$40,000 to build capacity for ceramic nest production
Wild Earth Allies, Chevy Chase, MD
$50,000 as the first installment to continue protecting endangered hawkbill sea turtles and their habits in El Salvador
World Wildlife Fund, Inc, Washington, DC
$50,000 as the first installment for catalyzing co-existence to recover Black-Footed Ferrets
Alliance for Contraception in Cats and Dogs, Portland, OR
$25,000 as the final installment for innovation to identify sterilized animals through surgical and non-surgical means
Friends of Animals, Darien, CT
$75,000 as the first installment for the Spay and Neuter Program
Humane Society of the United States, Gaithersburg, MD
$75,000 as the first installment for the Animal Rescue Team
All application materials must be submitted online.
All correspondence, including receipts and reports, should be addressed to:
The Regina Bauer Frankenberg Foundation
c/o Ms. Lindsey Crane, Program Officer
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
Private Foundation Services
390 Madison Avenue, 14th Floor
New York, NY 10017
Email: lindsey.s.crane@jpmorgan.com
Please note that electronic correspondence is preferred.