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Freidkin Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0167% 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
02FY2023 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $111,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $155,880 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $44,380 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
JCRC$1,000
JCPA$1,000
IDSF$1,000
Israel Forever Foundation$1,000
Hudson Institute$1,000
JINSA$1,000
FIDF$1,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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%
+21%

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
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

  • 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
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.

03Its 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
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Jewish Policy Center; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 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
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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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.
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 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.

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