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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 FY2024still arriving
63
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$2.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$14MEducation$10MReligion$713kArts & Culture$441kInternational$386kRecreation & Sports$331kPhilanthropy$313kHuman Services$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $380k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+4 grants · $8.4M
$10,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$66M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cornell University$2,820,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center$2,500,000
Cornell University$2,220,000
Cornell University$885,000
St. Johns Lutheran Hospital Foundation Inc$200,000
Hillel at Cornell Inc$200,000
St. Johns Lutheran Hospital Foundation Inc$200,000
Hillel at Cornell Inc$200,000
Finger Lakes Wrestling Club Inc$200,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center$100,000
Council on Foreign Relations$100,000
Central Synagogue$85,000
Tracys Kids Inc$80,000
Central Synagogue$50,000
UJA Federation of New York$50,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 43 repeat orgs$7.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
68

Total granted

$21M
$5.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+10%

Still filing today

67%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalRecreation & 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

  • Cornell University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $7.8M · revenue +23%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $230k · revenue +5%
  • TK
    TRACYS KIDS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $160k · revenue +23% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

  • WM
    Weill Medical College of Cornell University
    one grant, 2022 · $3.2M
  • CU
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY REF: COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • WM
    WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY USA CLINICAL RESEARCH FOR DIABETES
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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5
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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6
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
7
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
8
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
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
11
The Paley Center for Media

Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…

Arts & Culture
12
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Park Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Neue Galerie New York. 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

86 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. 86 of the 134 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/86
Grantees still filing
49/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: $10,440,000 · OtherMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterWeill Medical College of Cornell University: $3,220,000 · OtherWeill Medical College of Cornell UniversityCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY REF: COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL: $1,000,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY REF: COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOLWEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY USA CLINICAL RESEARCH FOR DIABETES: $1,000,000 · OtherWEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY USA CLINICAL RESEARCH FOR…+79 more: $2,053,250 · Other+79 moreCornell University: $7,827,600 · EducationCornell UniversityTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,001,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY I…STEVEN K AND WINIFRED A GRINSPOON HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH COMMUNITY: $472,000 · Education+7 more: $200,600 · EducationTHE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthTRACYS KIDS INC: $160,000 · HealthSt John's Health Foundation: $35,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $18,000 · Health+6 more: $36,300 · HealthCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $335,000 · InternationalAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $15,000 · International+6 more: $37,400 · InternationalUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $230,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $72,500 · Philanthropy+3 more: $8,600 · PhilanthropyFINGER LAKES WRESTLING CLUB INC: $200,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $60,000 · Recreation & SportsCALIFORNIA REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsBEAT THE STREETS WRESTLING INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsWNET: $95,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $65,000 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical Society: $55,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $15,000 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE 831: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $14,040 · Arts & Culture
Other$17,713,250Education$9,501,200Health$449,300International$387,400Philanthropy$311,100Recreation & Sports$286,000Arts & Culture$274,040

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $7,827,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,001,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEVEN K AND WINIFRED A GRINSPOON HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH COMMUNITY: $472,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $335,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $230,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetFINGER LAKES WRESTLING CLUB INC: $200,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetTRACYS KIDS INC: $160,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWNET: $95,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $72,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $36,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt John's Health Foundation: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSETTLEMENT HOUSING FUND INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCORNERSTONE YOUTH HOME: $20,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetOCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBUILDON INC: $11,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC: $11,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREADWORKSINC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRING ISLAND TRUST: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE 831: $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBEAT THE STREETS WRESTLING INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH RIGHTS & JUSTICE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIDAHO USA WRESTLING ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDOROT INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $7,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $7,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIAS INC: $5,000 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Charina Foundation In…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Hyde and Watson F…Combined Jewish Phila…The New York Communit…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Silicon Valley Commun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Ayco Charitable F…
Jewish Communal FundNY19.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.
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How do I get to Friedman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Friedman 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 134 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 2024, released 2024. 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 $8.3M 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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