Illinois · Private foundation
Ann B & Thomas L Friedman Family Found
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.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 47
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $56M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Ann B & Thomas L Friedman Family Found funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $1.7M | 15% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $1.8M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $1.3M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $37M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $1.9M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $1.9M | 28% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $2.6M | 41% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $1.8M | 41% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Museum of Language Arts Inc | $36,921,164 | 4 | 86% |
| The Seed Foundation | $2,987,000 | 9 | 28% |
| Music Associates of Aspen Inc | $1,938,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Conservation International Foundation | $1,785,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Kol Shalom | $960,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Reut USA | $525,000 | 3 | 11% |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $449,520 | 7 | 0% |
| Acumen Fund Inc | $150,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $145,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Downtowndc Foundation | $130,000 | 7 | 12% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ann B & Thomas L Friedman Family Found supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found · Carol and Gene Ludwig Family Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
Compare Ann B & Thomas L Friedman Family Found with peer funders
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About Ann B & Thomas L Friedman Family Found
- How much does Ann B & Thomas L Friedman Family Found give?
- Ann B & Thomas L Friedman Family Found reported 46 grants totaling $2,748,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ann B & Thomas L Friedman Family Found fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (77%), Education (7%), Philanthropy (6%).
- Who are Ann B & Thomas L Friedman Family Found's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Museum of Language Arts Inc ($37M), The Seed Foundation ($3.0M), Music Associates of Aspen Inc ($1.9M).
- Does Ann B & Thomas L Friedman Family Found fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ann B & Thomas L Friedman Family Found accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ann B & Thomas L Friedman Family Found?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Ann B & Thomas L Friedman Family Found based?
- Ann B & Thomas L Friedman Family Found is based in IL.
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