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Friedman-French Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $163k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $870k
- $250k+1 grant · $720k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILKEN INSTITUTE | $719,700 |
| STAND TOGETHER TRUST | $100,000 |
| NATURAL STATE | $100,000 |
| 613 FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| TALMUDICAL ACADEMY OF BALTIMORE | $85,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $75,000 |
| THE POTTER'S HOUSE DC | $60,000 |
| PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF | $50,000 |
| YMCA OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON | $50,000 |
| OLAMI | $50,000 |
| ARRAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP | $50,000 |
| SHRINE MONT | $50,000 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA | $50,000 |
| JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK | $49,325 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $318k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
53 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TMTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE6× · 2019–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +191%
- CNCHILDREN'S NATIONAL5× · 2017–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +21%
- WHWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY4× · 2018–2024 · $475k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- SASAMUEL AND ZEHAVA JEWISH LEARNING EXCHANGEone grant, 2019 · $450k
- FFFARM FORWARD INCone grant, 2017 · $390k · revenue -38%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $350k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Earth Day Texas Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
123 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 123 of the 178 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE MILKEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FARM FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds REWILD ↗
- Who funds SIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds USAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S ↗
- Who funds SHRINE MONT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HAZON INC ↗
- Who funds LION GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cheetah Conservation Fund ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO COUNTER CRIME ONLINE ↗
- Who funds REBOOT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ZSL AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL STATE LTD ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Emanuel J Friedman Charitable Trust · The Friedman Family Charitable Trust · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Gary & Carol Berman Family Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · United Way of the National Capital Area · Covenant Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Friedman-French Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bridges from School to Work Inc — 33% of income from government
- Ricks Place Inc — 30% of income from government
- Anacostia Watershed Society Inc — 15% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Melvin J Berman Hebrew Academy — 2% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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