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Ellen Beth Bogolub and Neil Friedman Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$444k
Granted FY2020
50
Grants FY2020
11
States reached
$427k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k49 grants · $17k
  • $250k+1 grant · $427k
$200
Median grant
11
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELLEN BOGOLUB AND NEIL FRIEDMAN FUND (DAF) (FK47) CO NORTHERN TRUST$426,814
THE NY METROPOLITAN OPERA$2,750
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC$2,500
CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY$2,050
DOROT FOUNDATION$720
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$500
LONG ISLAND CARES$450
CJE SENIOR LIFE$360
MAZON - A JEWISH RESPONSE TO HUNGER$360
NEW ISRAEL FUND$360
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE$360
ISLIP ARTS COUNCIL$350
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$300
WRITERS' THEATRE$300
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$300
02The need
02

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $810) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%LONG ISLAND CARES: $450 → 7%CJE SENIOR LIFE: $360 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
NY
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CA
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DC
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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.

03Your field

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.

1
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
2
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
5
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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7
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc

Uja-federation of new york (uja) cares for jews everywhere and new yorkers of all backgrounds, responds to crises close to home and far away, and shapes the jewish future. through strategic grantmaking, uja provides funding and resources…

Philanthropy
8
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
9
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights
10
Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc

Jewish national fund gives all generations of jews a unique voice in building a prosperous future for the land of israel and its people.

International
11
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
12
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago

Juf provides critical resources that bring food, refuge, health care, education and emergency assistance to over 500,000 chicagoans of all faiths and millions of jews in israel and around the world, funding a network of 100+ agencies,…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Long Island Greenbelt Trail Conference 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community FederationsPublic Library SupportFaith-Based Senior LivingFood Pantries & AssistanceEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Classical Music EnsemblesPregnancy Support ServicesCancer Support OrganizationsLand Conservation Organizat…Community Arts Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 48 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%6%10–20yr15%19%20–35yr14%41%35–55yr22%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%1%10–20yr15%16%20–35yr14%33%35–55yr22%49%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,326

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.

03the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
27/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ELLEN BOGOLUB AND NEIL FRIEDMAN FUND (DAF) (FK47) CO NORTHERN TRUST — $426,814 · OtherELLEN BOGOLUB AND NEIL FRIEDMAN FUND (DAF) (FK47) CO NORTHERN TRUST+28 more — $9,579 · OtherTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureISLIP ARTS COUNCIL INC — $350 · Arts & CultureWriters Theatre Inc — $300 · Arts & CultureNEW ISRAEL FUND — $360 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $360 · InternationalT'RUAH — $200 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $100 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $72 · InternationalBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $500 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $300 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $140 · EducationLong Island Cares Inc — $450 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY — $360 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $100 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $300 · HealthNATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC — $200 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $136 · HealthJBI INTERNATIONAL INC — $100 · HealthTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $300 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $150 · EnvironmentLong Island Greenbelt Trail Conference Inc — $75 · Environment
Other$436,393Arts & Culture$3,150International$1,092Education$940Human Services$910Health$736Environment$525

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc — $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger — $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY — $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLIP ARTS COUNCIL INC — $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWriters Theatre Inc — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Council on Urban Affairs — $254 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetT'RUAH — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $136 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST JOHNLAND — $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJBI INTERNATIONAL INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $72 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Street Council — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Ellen Beth Bogolub and Neil Friedman 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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