Illinois · Private foundation
Friedman Linda D 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.
- $138k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $316k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Friedman Linda D Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 | 10 | $138k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $132k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $256k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $176k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $180k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $189k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $138k | 87% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $125k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anshe Emet Synagogue | $175,000 | 7 | n/a |
| City Year Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Women Employed | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Muddy Waters Mojo Museum | $50,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Legends of the Ball Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 50% |
| Urban Juncture Foundation | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Chicago Sky Cares | $25,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jazz Institute of Chicago | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Steppenwolf Theatre Company | $15,550 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($651k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Friedman Linda D Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Alphawood Foundation · Walder Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
Compare Friedman Linda D Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Friedman Linda D Family Foundation
- How much does Friedman Linda D Family Foundation give?
- Friedman Linda D Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $137,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Friedman Linda D Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Education (23%), Philanthropy (15%).
- Who are Friedman Linda D Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Anshe Emet Synagogue ($175k), City Year Inc ($125k), Women Employed ($50k).
- Does Friedman Linda D Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Friedman Linda D Family 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 Linda D Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Lloyd a Fry Foundation.
- Where is Friedman Linda D Family Foundation based?
- Friedman Linda D Family Foundation is based in IL.
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