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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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$720k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through 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, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$4.0MSocial Science$3.2MHealth$2.3MAnimals$2.2MEnvironment$1.8MPhilanthropy$689kEducation$541kFood & Nutrition$520kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $163k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $870k
  • $250k+1 grant · $720k
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$55M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
YMCA OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON$50,000
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION$50,000
OLAMI$50,000
ARRAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$50,000
SHRINE MONT$50,000
WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF$50,000
CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA$50,000
JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK$49,325
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RICK'S PLACE: $5k → 17%FAR AWAY PROJECTS: $3k → 12%MEANING FOUNDATION: $50k → 5%MARRIOTT FOUNDATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $25k → 8%MARRIOTT FOUNDATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $25k → 8%MOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER: $100k → 17%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON: $50k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON: $45k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 53 repeat orgs$5.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
109

Total granted

$12M
$4.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+27%

Still filing today

62%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TM
    THE MILKEN INSTITUTE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +191%
  • CN
    CHILDREN'S NATIONAL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +21%
  • WH
    WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY
    4× · 2018–2024 · $475k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • SA
    SAMUEL AND ZEHAVA JEWISH LEARNING EXCHANGE
    one grant, 2019 · $450k
  • FF
    FARM FORWARD INC
    one grant, 2017 · $390k · revenue -38%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $350k
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.

04Its 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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
World Resources Institute

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…

International
3
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
4
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
5
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

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,…

Philanthropy
6
Observer Research Foundation America

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…

International
7
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
8
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
9
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
10
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

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…

International
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
12
Activate Global Inc

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

123 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. 123 of the 178 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
117/123
Grantees still filing
80/123
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $2,321,000 · OtherTHE MILKEN INSTITUTETALMUDICAL ACADEMY OF BALTIMORE INC: $1,625,000 · OtherTALMUDICAL ACADEMY OF BALTIMORE INCMILKEN INSTITUTE: $719,700 · OtherMILKEN INSTITUTEWORKING DOGS FOR CONSERVATION: $559,000 · OtherCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA: $450,000 · OtherSAMUEL AND ZEHAVA JEWISH LEARNING EXCHANGE: $450,000 · Other+97 more: $5,285,210 · Other+97 moreCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $1,407,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S N…USAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S: $225,000 · HealthUSAGAINSTALZ…CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $98,475 · Health+9 more: $176,000 · Health+9 moreWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $475,000 · AnimalsWASHINGTON …FARM FORWARD INC: $390,000 · AnimalsFARM FORWAR…REWILD: $325,000 · AnimalsREWILDCheetah Conservation Fund: $153,370 · AnimalsCheetah Con…ZSL AMERICA INC: $100,000 · AnimalsMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Animals+12 more: $337,600 · Animals+12 moreTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $325,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $272,500 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $127,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $57,325 · PhilanthropyThe Abraham Foundation: $40,000 · Philanthropy+8 more: $140,000 · PhilanthropySIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC: $315,500 · ReligionREBOOT INC: $115,000 · ReligionMOISHE HOUSE: $105,000 · ReligionGATHER INC: $100,000 · Religion+3 more: $40,000 · ReligionTHE ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA ASSOCIATIONINC: $295,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL STATE LTD: $100,000 · EnvironmentGROWTORAH INC: $82,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND: $75,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL COMPASSION: $25,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $25,000 · EnvironmentCasey Trees: $25,000 · Environment+4 more: $42,500 · EnvironmentTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC: $100,000 · EducationGesher School Inc: $100,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 · EducationPHILLIPS PROGRAMS: $25,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · Education+8 more: $60,000 · Education
Other$11,409,910Health$2,006,975Animals$1,880,970Philanthropy$961,825Religion$675,500Environment$669,500Education$405,000

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 budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $2,321,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $1,407,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $475,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFARM FORWARD INC: $390,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $325,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetREWILD: $325,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC: $315,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHE ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA ASSOCIATIONINC: $295,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $272,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY: $249,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetUSAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S: $225,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSHRINE MONT INCORPORATED: $200,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetHAZON INC: $195,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetLION GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $161,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCheetah Conservation Fund: $153,370 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $127,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE TO COUNTER CRIME ONLINE: $125,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetREBOOT INC: $115,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON: $110,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE: $105,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetINTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetGATHER INC: $100,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetZSL AMERICA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetMOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGesher School Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetWashington Area Bicyclist Association: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGROWTORAH INC: $82,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetEARTH DAY TEXAS INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWILDLIFE ALLIANCE INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWe Care Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetEMPOWERS AFRICA INC: $60,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $57,325 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTOP IVORY INC: $53,180 over 2y, 33% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $52,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION: $52,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeaning Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARRAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $50,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetBridges from School to Work Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $46,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT INC: $45,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe Abraham Foundation: $40,000 over 3y, 2.7% 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.

  • 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 INTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds GATHER INC ↗
  • Who funds ZSL AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds MOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Emanuel J Friedma…The Friedman Family C…The Morningstar Phila…Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…The Gary & Carol Berm…Silicon Valley Commun…The Shimon Ben Joseph…Jewish Community Fede…United Way of the Nat…Covenant FoundationJewish Communal Fund
The Emanuel J Friedman Charitable TrustDC34.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Friedman-French Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Friedman-French Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Friedman-French Foundation Inc 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 178 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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