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FriedmanGrossman Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$358k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
2
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$357,305
Largest grant, FY2021
$357,305
Organizations funded a year
1 to 21
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
2
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations FriedmanGrossman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
HealthInternationalEducationOther
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
FY20212$358k0%
FY20201$5000%
FY20196$14k17%
FY201821$21k71%
FY201716$20kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$359kHealth$24kReligion$14kArts & Culture$13kRecreation & Sports$1kInternational$725Civil Rights$350Youth Development$100Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Swarthmore College$358,30520%
Congregation Emanu El$13,5275n/a
Music in Context$5,22042%
The Society of Neurological Surgeons$3,50010%
Houston Area Parkinson Society$2,50010%
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston$1,50010%
Epilepsy Foundation of Texas$75030%
William Marsh Rice University$60010%
Holocaust Museum Houston$35020%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$35020%
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All grantees of FriedmanGrossman Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Swarthmore College$358,30520%
Congregation Emanu El$13,5275n/a
Music in Context$5,22042%
The Society of Neurological Surgeons$3,50010%
Houston Area Parkinson Society$2,50010%
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston$1,50010%
Epilepsy Foundation of Texas$75030%
William Marsh Rice University$60010%
Holocaust Museum Houston$35020%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$35020%
The Methodist Hospital Foundation$25010%
Friends of Fleming Park$2002n/a
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$20010%
Amnesty International of the USA Inc$17520%
Dystonia Medical Research Foundation$15010%
Oxfam-America Inc$10010%
United States Fund for Unicef$10010%
Anti-Defamation League$10010%

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget FriedmanGrossman Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSwarthmore College: $358,305 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMusic in Context: $5,220 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetThe Society of Neurological Surgeons: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHouston Area Parkinson Society: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Museum of Fine Arts Houston: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEpilepsy Foundation of Texas: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHolocaust Museum Houston: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Methodist Hospital Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmnesty International of the USA Inc: $175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDystonia Medical Research Foundation: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $100 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 16.

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.

Shell USA Company Fou…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Shell USA Company FoundationTX12.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 FriedmanGrossman Family Foundation

How much does FriedmanGrossman Family Foundation give?
FriedmanGrossman Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $357,955 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does FriedmanGrossman Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (87%), Health (6%), Religion (3%).
Who are FriedmanGrossman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Swarthmore College ($358k), Congregation Emanu El ($14k), Music in Context ($5k).
Does FriedmanGrossman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does FriedmanGrossman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as FriedmanGrossman Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is FriedmanGrossman Family Foundation based?
FriedmanGrossman Family Foundation is based in TX.

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 32 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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