· Private foundation
Abel & Judy Friedman Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Hillel International | $100,000 |
| Moishe House | $60,000 |
| Jewish Plays Project | $15,000 |
| Brandeis University | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Open Heart Magic | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE5× · 2020–2025 · $650k · revenue +62%- MHMOISHE HOUSE5× · 2020–2025 · $340k · revenue +123%
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum2× · 2020–2023 · $175k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $50k
Northwestern Universitygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +33%- FFIDFone grant, 2020 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The mission of Iowa Hillel is to enhance the lives of Jewish students at the University of Iowa, so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. Iowa Hillel envisions a world for our students where they find a community here at Iowa…
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
The mission of the organization is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Hillel at Miami University, the center of Jewish life on campus, seeks to engage, connect, and empower students to explore their Jewish identity creating a vibrant Jewish community and inspiring the next generation of Jewish leaders.
Philadelphia jewish film and media (pjfm) creates connection and community through jewish cinema and digital storytelling. pjfm welcomes everyone to engage with jewish culture and values through its educational and entertaining year-round…
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
As the voice of the jewish community, to protect jewish interests & promote jewish ideals.
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEART MAGIC ↗
- Who funds NORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Abel & Judy Friedman Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abel & Judy Friedman Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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