Skip to content

Maryland · Private foundation

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
Itemized grants FY2023
17
Organizations funded FY2023
65%
First-time grantees FY2023
Read the full brief
Itemized, FY2023
$112k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 18
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
4
Total assets, FY2023
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 65% of the organizations Freidkin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202317$77k65%
FY201918$90kn/a
67% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($93k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Freidkin Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Jewish Policy Center: $50,000 over 2y, 2.8% 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 budgetHudson Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $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

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

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

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.

Compare Freidkin Family Foundation with peer funders

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

About Freidkin Family Foundation

How much does Freidkin Family Foundation give?
Freidkin Family Foundation reported 18 itemized grants totaling $111,500, out of $155,880 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Freidkin Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (5%), International (5%), Education (1%).
Who are Freidkin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: National Jewish Policy Center ($50k), Momentum Unlimited Inc ($7k), Jewish Foundation for Group Homes Inc ($5k).
Does Freidkin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Freidkin Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Freidkin Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Freidkin Family Foundation based?
Freidkin Family Foundation is based in MD.

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 30 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Freidkin Family’s filings →

More from the funding graph