New York · Private foundation
Friedman 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.
- $11M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 63
- Grants FY2024
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,820,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 61
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $66M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 41% of the organizations Friedman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 45 | $10M | 44% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $4.9M | 41% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $6.8M | 67% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $5.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornell University | $7,827,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Steven K and Winifred a Grinspoon Hillel Center for Jewish Community | $472,000 | 1 | 2% |
| St. Johns Lutheran Hospital Foundation Inc | $400,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Synagogue | $363,600 | 4 | n/a |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $335,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $230,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Fibrolamellar Cancer Foundation | $200,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Finger Lakes Wrestling Club Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 30% |
| Tracys Kids Inc | $160,000 | 2 | 25% |
| The George W Bush Foundation | $140,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 87 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($17M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Friedman Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Friedman Family Foundation
- How much does Friedman Family Foundation give?
- Friedman Family Foundation reported 63 grants totaling $10,624,300 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 61 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Friedman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (24%), Education (18%), Religion (1%).
- Who are Friedman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Cornell University ($7.8M), Steven K and Winifred a Grinspoon Hillel Center for Jewish Community ($472k), St. Johns Lutheran Hospital Foundation Inc ($400k).
- Does Friedman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Friedman 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 Friedman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel.
- Where is Friedman Family Foundation based?
- Friedman Family Foundation is based in NY.
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