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Eric and Tiffany Friedman Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Eric and Tiffany Friedman Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2026still arriving
21
Grants FY2026still arriving
7
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.1MEducation$789kEnvironment$278kArts & Culture$142kHealth$140kFood & Nutrition$130kHuman Services$60kAnimals$20k
02FY2026 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k4 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $316k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
  • $250k+1 grant · $600k
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRENCH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL$600,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$75,000
SF MARIN FOOD BANK$60,000
ERIC AND TIFFANY FRIEDMAN CHARITABLE FUND - RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE FUNDS$40,000
THE OPEN DOOR$40,000
UCSF FOUNDATION$30,000
SF MARIN FOOD BANK$30,000
THE OPEN DOOR$20,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$20,000
RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY$20,000
SAN FRANCISCO VILLAGE$20,000
SAN FRANCISCO VILLAGE$20,000
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY$20,000
ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT$20,000
FRENCH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL$15,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY26–26, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SAN FRANCISCO VILLAGE: $20k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO VILLAGE: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 18 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2026, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
6

Total granted

$4.5M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+2%

Still filing today

61%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25’26
EnvironmentEducationHealthHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TI
    THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO
    5× · 2022–2026 · $985k · revenue +6%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    5× · 2022–2026 · $100k · revenue +47%
  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $80k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • UB
    UCSF BENIOFF CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +2%
  • MA
    MASS AUDUBON
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to promote sustainability in the Bay Area and beyond by engaging communities in avian science, habitat restoration, and education.

Environment
4
Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
7
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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8
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
9
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
10
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
11
California Institute for Biodiversity

Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.

Education
12
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ERIC AND TIFFANY FRIEDMAN CHARITABLE FUND: $1,240,000 · OtherERIC AND TIFFANY FRIEDMAN CHARITABLE FUNDERIC AND TIFFANY FRIEDMAN CHARITABLE FUND - RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE FUNDS: $852,450 · OtherERIC AND TIFFANY FRIEDMAN CHARITABLE FUND - RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE FUNDSYALE UNIVERSITY: $310,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYYALE UNIVERSITY: $175,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $140,000 · OtherTHE OPEN DOOR: $120,000 · Other+9 more: $298,336 · Other+9 moreTHE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $984,800 · EducationTHE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL…+2 more: $40,000 · EducationRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $100,000 · EnvironmentESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $90,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $80,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $40,000 · EnvironmentMANCHESTER ESSEX CONSERVATION TRUST: $20,000 · EnvironmentKESTREL EDUCATIONAL ADVENTURES INC: $17,400 · EnvironmentDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $100,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN: $20,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $20,000 · HealthSAN FRANCISCO VILLAGE: $40,000 · Human Services
Other$3,135,786Education$1,024,800Environment$347,400Health$140,000Human Services$40,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $984,800 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $140,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $90,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Boys Chorus: $45,200 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANCHESTER ESSEX CONSERVATION TRUST: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKESTREL EDUCATIONAL ADVENTURES INC: $17,400 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetST EDMUND'S ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Eric and Tiffany Friedman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eric and Tiffany Friedman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Essex County Greenbelt Association: 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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