Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
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.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 59%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $719,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 51
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $55M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 59% of the organizations Friedman-French Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $615k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $1.7M | 45% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $1.5M | 59% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $2.3M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $1.5M | 56% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $1.7M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $2.2M | 56% |
| FY2019 | 51 | $2.9M | 65% |
| FY2018 | 44 | $2.0M | 66% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Milken Institute | $2,321,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Talmudical Academy of Baltimore Inc | $1,625,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Children's National | $1,407,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Washington Humane Society | $475,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Chabad Lubavitch of Northern Virginia | $450,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Farm Forward Inc | $390,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Rewild | $325,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Sixth & I Synagogue Inc | $315,500 | 5 | 2% |
| The Environmental Media Associationinc | $295,000 | 2 | 27% |
| Prostate Cancer Foundation | $272,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 129 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Friedman-French Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 107 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Friedman-French Foundation Inc
- How much does Friedman-French Foundation Inc give?
- Friedman-French Foundation Inc reported 21 grants totaling $1,754,025 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Friedman-French Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (22%), Social Science (18%), Health (13%).
- Who are Friedman-French Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Milken Institute ($2.3M), Talmudical Academy of Baltimore Inc ($1.6M), Children's National ($1.4M).
- Does Friedman-French Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Friedman-French Foundation Inc 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-French Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Emanuel J Friedman Charitable Trust, The Friedman Family Charitable Trust, The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation.
- Where is Friedman-French Foundation Inc based?
- Friedman-French Foundation Inc is based in DC.
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