· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $403k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $496k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| PLANET WORD TO MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS | $500,000 |
| ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL | $285,000 |
| THE SEED FOUNDATION INC | $226,000 |
| KOL SHALOM | $120,000 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | $50,000 |
| WAMU885 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY RADIO | $50,000 |
| WETA | $50,000 |
| WORLD LEARNING | $30,000 |
| THE DONALD J TRUMP AND JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFOMING ARTS | $25,000 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF MARSHALL SCHOLARS | $25,000 |
| CHILDRENS MUSUEM OF MANHATTAN | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATIONS INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
55 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 6 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $588k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MAMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +141%
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +123%- RUREUT USA3× · 2021–2023 · $525k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- CTCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +15%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +5%
- TKTHE KENNEDY CENTERone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…
The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
How this is measured
76 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. 76 of the 93 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 THE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REUT USA ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds ACUMEN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWNDC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds RED BRIDGE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION OF MARSHALL SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds HERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCH ASSN OF WASHINGTON DC ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS 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 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ann B & Thomas L Friedman Family Found funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ann B & Thomas L Friedman Family Found. Bigger dots raise more.
- World Learning Inc: 39% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- The Writers Center: 6% of income from government
- Interfaith Works: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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