· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR MOTHER OF SORROWS CHURCH | $25,983 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,074 |
| QUEENSTOWN VOL FIRE COMPANYEMS | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CHESTERWYE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MARY DM REYNOLDS MEMORIAL GIVING FUND | $500 |
| EASTERN SHORE HOLSTEIN ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| TALISMAN THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC | $500 |
| SHORERIVERS | $500 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $500 |
| THE JULIANNE ROSELA FOUNDATION | $350 |
| TAP CANCER OUT | $262 |
| ST CHRISTOPHER'S CHURCH | $250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
117 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 94 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY5× · 2019–2023 · $40k · revenue +37%
- SMSAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC3× · 2018–2021 · $18k · revenue +61%
THE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC5× · 2019–2025 · $13k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- SPST PETER'S CEMETARY TRUST FUNDone grant, 2024 · $73k
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue 0%
- AAALS ASSOCCHESAPEAKE BAYone grant, 2024 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
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City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
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…
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
City of Hope National Medical Center's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Soar. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
95 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 95 of the 255 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds GRASONVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTERWYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHORERIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHOPTANK INC ↗
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 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
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 Friel Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Talisman Therapeutic Riding Inc — 25% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Choptank Inc — 10% of income from government
- Zamir Chorale of Boston Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Chesterwye Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.