Texas · Private foundation
Friedman 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.
- $381k
- Granted FY2023
- 56
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 49%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2023
- $312k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 51
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 5
- Total assets, FY2023
- $5.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 49% of the organizations Friedman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 47 | $310k | 49% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $279k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $274k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Jewish Committee | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Texas Heart Institute | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston | $24,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service | $11,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Memorial Hermann Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lsu Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Holocaust Museum Houston | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St John's School | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($616k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Friedman Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · The Weingarten Schnitzer Foundation Inc · John P McGovern Foundation · Houston Texans Foundation · The Powell Foundation
How this is measured
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About Friedman Foundation
- How much does Friedman Foundation give?
- Friedman Foundation reported 56 itemized grants totaling $312,100, out of $380,933 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 51 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Friedman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (14%), Education (7%), Philanthropy (6%).
- Who are Friedman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: American Jewish Committee ($25k), Texas Heart Institute ($25k), Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ($25k).
- Does Friedman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 49% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Friedman 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, Shell USA Company Foundation.
- Where is Friedman Foundation based?
- Friedman Foundation is based in TX.
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