· Private foundation
Abbie Friedman Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
72% of Abbie Friedman Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Las Vegas Sigesmund Center, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH NEVADA | $59,703 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,309 |
| ROCK AND SOUL FOREVER FOUNDATION (TEACHROCK) | $5,052 |
| CHARITYBUZZ | $3,378 |
| TEMPLE SINAI | $3,055 |
| ZICHRON YAAKOC INSTITUTE | $801 |
| TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM LAS VEGAS | $371 |
| LAWFARE INSTITUTE | $363 |
| AMERICA GIVES | $225 |
| NE'EMAN FOUNDATION | $180 |
| WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY | $18 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient8× · 2017–2024 · $447k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2021–2023 · $9k
- CCHARITYBUZZ2× · 2023–2024 · $6k
Funded once
- JMJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue +28%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $6k
- LGLEGEND GROUP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Giving Back Fund and the most unlike its peers is Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS SIGESMUND CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds TYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds DR MIRIAM AND SHELDON G ADELSON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL LEVIN LONE SOLDIER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Embracing Project ↗
- Who funds LAS VEGAS SUPER BOWL HOST COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds Lawfare Institute ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds NE EMAN FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Abbie Friedman Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.