Maryland · Private foundation
Friel 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.
- $44k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 49%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,983
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 125
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 49% of the organizations Friel Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 79% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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 | 33 | $43k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $117k | 49% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $65k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 76 | $72k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 77 | $199k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 125 | $51k | 58% |
| FY2019 | 76 | $91k | 72% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $33k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Villanova University | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Mount Saint Joseph High School Inc | $27,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Young Mens Christian Association of the Chesapeake Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Saint Martins Ministries Inc | $18,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Compass Regional Hospice Inc | $16,300 | 5 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $14,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Gunston School Inc | $12,900 | 5 | 0% |
| Radcliffe Creek School Inc | $11,050 | 7 | 0% |
| Queen Anne's County Free Library | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Grasonville Volunteer Fire Department Inc | $5,475 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 126 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 127 recipients with no EIN on record ($452k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Friel Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · B & R Charitable Foundation Inc · The Halprin Family Foundation B · The A&S Giancristofaro Family Foundation Inc · David a Bramble Foundation Inc · Bernard and Betty Hardesty Charitable Foundation Inc · David E & Mary C Gallo Foundation · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · The Llandaff Family Trust · The Salem Foundation · Anastasia & KR Jenkins Foundation · The Fred Frederick Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Friel Foundation Inc
- How much does Friel Foundation Inc give?
- Friel Foundation Inc reported 34 grants totaling $43,594 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 125 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Friel Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (47%), Health (20%), Education (15%).
- Who are Friel Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Villanova University ($40k), Mount Saint Joseph High School Inc ($28k), Young Mens Christian Association of the Chesapeake Inc ($25k).
- Does Friel Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 49% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Friel Foundation Inc 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 Friel Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc, B & R Charitable Foundation Inc, The Halprin Family Foundation B.
- Where is Friel Foundation Inc based?
- Friel Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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