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Freidkin Family Foundation

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.

$156k
Granted FY2023
18
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
0167% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Philanthropy$58kInternational$54kEducation$10kReligion$10kCivil Rights$8kHuman Services$8kArts & Culture$4kSocial Science$4kOther$0
02FY2023 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $111,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $155,880 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $44,380 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k14 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jewish Federation of Greater Washington$35,000
Jewish Policy Center$25,000
JSSA$15,000
FCAS$10,000
Inter. March of the Living$7,100
American Friends of Hebrew University$5,000
Momentum$3,600
American Friends of Lubuvich$1,800
IDSF$1,000
Israel Forever Foundation$1,000
Hudson Institute$1,000
JINSA$1,000
FIDF$1,000
JCPA$1,000
JCRC$1,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$101k · 6 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

$101k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+12%

Still filing today

50%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’23
InternationalReligionArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • NJ
    NATIONAL JEWISH POLICY CENTER
    2× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +32%
  • J
    JSSA
    2× · 2019–2023 · $30k
  • AF
    American Friends of Hebrew University
    2× · 2019–2023 · $10k

Funded once

  • FO
    Federation of Greater Washington
    one grant, 2019 · $23k
  • JF
    JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +126%
  • AC
    American Committee for Weizmann Institute
    one grant, 2019 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

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
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
3
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
4
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
5
University of Judaism Foundation
6
Sherit Isroel
7
The Jerusalem Connection
8
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
9
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
10
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
11
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
12
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Jewish Policy Center and the most unlike its peers is The Israel Forever Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JSSA — $30,000 · OtherJSSAFederation of Greater Washington — $23,000 · OtherFederation of Greater WashingtonAmerican Friends of Hebrew University — $10,000 · OtherAmerican Friends of Hebrew UniversityFCAS — $10,000 · OtherFCASInter. March of the Living — $7,100 · OtherInter. March of the Living+12 more — $14,053 · Other+12 moreNATIONAL JEWISH POLICY CENTER — $50,000 · InternationalNATIONAL JEWISH POLICY CENTER+2 more — $2,000 · InternationalTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $35,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATI…+1 more — $500 · PhilanthropyMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC — $7,200 · ReligionJEWISH RESOURCE CENTER — $1,800 · ReligionJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE ISRAEL FOREVER FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $1,900 · Arts & CultureRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $1,000 · HealthHEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $500 · HealthFRIENDS OF BROOKLINE ROWING INC — $600 · Recreation & Sports
Other$94,153International$52,000Philanthropy$35,500Religion$9,000Human Services$5,000Arts & Culture$3,900Health$1,500Recreation & Sports$600

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 budgetNATIONAL JEWISH POLICY CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC — $7,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ISRAEL FOREVER FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $1,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHudson Institute Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BROOKLINE ROWING INC — $600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLEBANK FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF NEVE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN INC — $260 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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Freidkin Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Freidkin Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 30 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $279k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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