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Friedman-Townsend Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$18k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 21
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$64k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Friedman-Townsend Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$18k50%
FY20235$5k40%
FY20227$5k29%
FY20219$10k33%
FY202010$3k10%
FY201921$10kn/a
84% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$19kReligion$9kHuman Services$5kInternational$3kEducation$2kPhilanthropy$2kEmployment$1kAnimals$230Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
SD
PA
NE
MD
NC
SC
DC
OK
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($14k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Friedman-Townsend Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHeritage Hall School Inc: $18,333 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetForce 50 Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetOklahoma Israel Exchange Inc: $1,080 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCanterbury Voices Inc: $1,056 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLowes Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAshley Hall Foundation: $845 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgetown University: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma City Museum of Art Inc Fka Oklahoma City Art Museum: $225 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFree to Live Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Arbor Day Foundation: $80 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHearts for Hearing Foundation: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCal Farley's Boys Ranch: $52 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWildcare Foundation: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $40 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Great Plains: $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Conservancy: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

Oklahoma City Community Foundation IncOK19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Fred Jones Family Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Rainbolt Family Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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.

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About Friedman-Townsend Foundation

How much does Friedman-Townsend Foundation give?
Friedman-Townsend Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $18,112 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 21 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Friedman-Townsend Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Religion (17%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Friedman-Townsend Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Heritage Hall School Inc ($18k), Temple B'Nai Israel ($7k), Force 50 Foundation Inc ($5k).
Does Friedman-Townsend Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Friedman-Townsend 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-Townsend Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc, Fred Jones Family Foundation, American Fidelity Foundation.
Where is Friedman-Townsend Foundation based?
Friedman-Townsend Foundation is based in OK.

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 35 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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