· Private foundation
Fredman Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $677k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW | $125,000 |
| PADDLERS FOR HUMANITY | $100,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $100,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $100,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $100,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVATORY | $100,000 |
| BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $75,000 |
| GIVEWELL | $70,000 |
| THE LIFE YOU CAN SAVE | $60,000 |
| THE TROY ANDREWS FOUNDATION INC | $60,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $55,000 |
| VILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND INC | $54,000 |
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Fredman Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $519k 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
- TBTHE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE5× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +148%
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC3× · 2019–2021 · $900k · revenue +1%- RERANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC2× · 2019–2020 · $500k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- VCVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENTone grant, 2019 · $500k
THE BAIL PROJECT INCone grant, 2020 · $118k · revenue -85%
FARM SHARE INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +4%
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Space Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Life You Can Save. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 84 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 BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE TROY ANDREWS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHPOWER365 ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds PADDLERS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WALKING MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds The Life You Can Save ↗
- Who funds Alices Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FARM SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds MALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC ↗
- Who funds CODEART INC ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Fine and Greenwald Foundation · Cyril F & Marie O'Neil Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Miami Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Patagoniaorg · Mightycause Charitable 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 Fredman Family Foundation Inc 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.
- United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
- Farm Share Inc — 6% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% 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.