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FriedmanGrossman Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$358k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$357k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$359kHealth$24kReligion$14kArts & Culture$13kRecreation & Sports$1kInternational$725Civil Rights$350Youth Development$100Other$0
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $650
  • $250k+1 grant · $357k
$357,305
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Swarthmore College$357,305
CONGREGATION EMANUEL$650
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 12% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%OXFAM AMERICA: $100 → 16%Swarthmore College: $357k → 10%PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK: $200 → 14%UNICEF USA: $100 → 17%HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: $250 → 16%MUSEUM NEW MEXICO: $100 → 12%SOCIETY NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS: $4k → 14%SWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $1k → 10%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $200 → 17%HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: $100 → 16%SOCIETY NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS: $4k → 14%AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: $150 → 17%CONGREGATION EMANU EL: $5k → 16%SOCIETY OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS: $4k → 14%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $150 → 17%MUSEUM FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $5k → 16%DYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $150 → 14%AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: $25 → 17%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $2k → 16%LA GUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL: $40 → 17%MUSEUM FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $2k → 16%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTY ASSOC: $150 → 17%Rice UniversityWomen's Track: $1k → 16%ACLU: $100 → 17%RICE UNIVERSITY: $600 → 16%HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $250 → 16%FRIENDS OF FLEMING PARK: $100 → 16%EPILEPSY FOUNDATION TEXAS: $500 → 16%FRIENDS OF FLEMING PARK: $100 → 16%EPILEPSY FOUNDATION TEXAS: $250 → 16%THE INSTITUTE FOR REHABILITATION & RESEARCH: $5k → 16%HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA: $365 → 16%KUHF HOUSTON PUBLIC RADIO: $100 → 16%CONGREGATION EMANUEL: $5k → 16%CONGREGATION EMANUEL: $3k → 16%CONGREGATION EMANUEL: $650 → 16%CONGREGATION EMANUEL: $500 → 16%BLUE SANTA INC: $100 → 16%UHCL THEATER DEPARTMENT: $200 → 16%HOUSTON PARKINSON SOCIETY: $5k → 16%HOUSTON AREA PARKINSON SOCIETY: $3k → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATION: $100 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$392k · 10 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2021, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
22

Total granted

$392k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+83%

Still filing today

60%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthInternationalEducationArts & CultureCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
    2× · 2018–2021 · $358k · revenue +13%
  • EF
    EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS
    3× · 2018–2020 · $750 · revenue +45%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $350 · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • TI
    THE INSTITUTE FOR REHABILITATION & RESEARCH
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • HP
    HOUSTON PARKINSON SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • TS
    THE SOCIETY OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +111%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
2
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
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
5
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
6
Mhs Physicians of Texas

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
Houston Museum of Natural Science

The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…

Arts & Culture
9
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
10
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Methodist Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. 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

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SWARTHMORE COLLEGE — $358,305 · EducationSWARTHMORE COLLEGE+2 more — $4,100 · EducationCONGREGATION EMANU EL — $13,527 · OtherCONGREGATIO…SOCIETY NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS — $7,000 · OtherSOCIETY NEU…MUSEUM FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $6,000 · OtherMUSEUM FINE…THE INSTITUTE FOR REHABILITATION & RESEARCH — $5,000 · OtherTHE INSTITU…HOUSTON PARKINSON SOCIETY — $5,000 · OtherHOUSTON PAR…Houston Area Parkinson Society — $2,500 · OtherHouston Are…+11 more — $2,455 · Other+11 moreMUSIC IN CONTEXT — $5,220 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $1,500 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON — $350 · Arts & CultureEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $750 · HealthTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $250 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $200 · HealthDYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $150 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $350 · InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $175 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $100 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $100 · InternationalANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $100 · Civil Rights
Education$362,405Other$41,482Arts & Culture$7,070Health$1,350International$725Civil Rights$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization FriedmanGrossman Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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