· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| WETA | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | $50,000 |
| WAMU885 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY RADIO | $50,000 |
| WORLD LEARNING | $30,000 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| CHILDRENS MUSUEM OF MANHATTAN | $25,000 |
| CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| THE DONALD J TRUMP AND JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFOMING ARTS | $25,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF MARSHALL SCHOLARS | $25,000 |
| LILLIAN AND ALBERT SMALL CAPITAL JEWISH MUSEUM | $20,000 |
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.
Your 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 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 +26% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
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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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…
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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…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Matthew Harris Ornstein Memorial Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
76 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. 76 of the 93 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 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 Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds WORLD LEARNING INC ↗
- 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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds HERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCH ASSN OF WASHINGTON DC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
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: 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
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 Ann B & Thomas L Friedman Family Found 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.
- 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
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.
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