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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 FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$317kHealth$135kEducation$103kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kHuman Services$28kHousing & Shelter$20kPhilanthropy$13kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
$250
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUR MOTHER OF SORROWS CHURCH$25,983
Individual grant recipient$5,074
QUEENSTOWN VOL FIRE COMPANYEMS$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
CHESTERWYE FOUNDATION$1,000
RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL$1,000
TALISMAN THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC$500
MARY DM REYNOLDS MEMORIAL GIVING FUND$500
EASTERN SHORE HOLSTEIN ASSOCIATION$500
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$500
SHORERIVERS$500
THE JULIANNE ROSELA FOUNDATION$350
TAP CANCER OUT$262
OBLATES OF ST FRANCIS DE SALES$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GOOD OLE BOY FOUNDATION INC: $100 → 10%BOYS TOWN: $30 → 12%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $50 → 14%TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $300 → 10%CHESTERWYE CENTER: $500 → 7%CHESTERWYE CENTER: $200 → 7%CHESTERWYE CENTER: $100 → 7%CHESTERWYE CENTER: $100 → 7%CHESTERWYE CENTER: $100 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
SC
DC
HI
OK
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$518k · 117 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117
126

Total granted

$518k
$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+6%

Still filing today

36%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2019–2023 · $40k · revenue +37%
  • SM
    SAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $18k · revenue +61%
  • THE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $13k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • SP
    ST PETER'S CEMETARY TRUST FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $73k
  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • QA
    QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY FREE LIBRARY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -6%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

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…

Health
2
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

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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3
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
4
City of Hope

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

Health
5
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
6
Global Partners in Care

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.

International
7
American Academy of Neurology

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

Community Improvement
8
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
9
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
10
City of Hope National Medical Center

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

Health
11
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
12
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

96 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 96 of the 255 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/96
Grantees still filing
61/96
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OUR MOTHER OF SORROWS CHURCH: $198,827 · OtherOUR MOTHER OF SORROWS CHURCHST PETER'S CEMETARY TRUST FUND: $73,472 · OtherST PETER'S CEMETARY TRUST FUNDMOUNT SAINT JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL INC: $27,500 · OtherUMMS FOUNDATION ONCOLOGY DEPARTMENT: $27,000 · OtherUM MED SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $25,076 · OtherYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $25,000 · Other+154 more: $196,637 · Other+154 moreVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationVILLANOVA …RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC: $11,050 · EducationRADCLIFFE …QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY FREE LIBRARY: $10,000 · EducationQUEEN ANNE…+3 more: $950 · EducationAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $14,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,735 · HealthBOSOM BUDDIES CHARITIES INC: $1,250 · HealthDEMENTIA SOCIETY INC: $1,030 · Health+15 more: $3,330 · HealthCHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC: $7,700 · PhilanthropyKENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC: $1,200 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF WYE MILL INC: $700 · Philanthropy+2 more: $200 · PhilanthropyGRASONVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $5,475 · Public Safety & DisasterKENT ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $500 · Public Safety & DisasterFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $1,210 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $255 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $240 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $88 · International+2 more: $133 · InternationalSHORERIVERS INC: $2,000 · Environment
Other$573,512Education$62,000Health$22,345Philanthropy$9,800Public Safety & Disaster$5,975International$2,426Environment$2,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCOMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE INC: $16,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC: $12,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC: $11,050 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetQUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY FREE LIBRARY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC: $7,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGRASONVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $5,475 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,735 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $2,465 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTERWYE FOUNDATION INC: $2,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSHORERIVERS INC: $2,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChester River Health Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHOPTANK INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSOM BUDDIES CHARITIES INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $1,210 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDEMENTIA SOCIETY INC: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC: $1,003 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTERWYE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF WYE MILL INC: $700 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFeeding America: $689 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL UNION MISSION: $566 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTER CHRISTMAS FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetQUEEN ANNES COUNTY 4-H PARK ASSOC: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENT ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR A CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION INC: $373 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKENNARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION LARRIE S JONES CULTURAL: $300 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMercy Ships International: $255 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetQUEEN ANNES COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH COMMITTEE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $240 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $240 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $231 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChrist House: $210 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION INC: $208 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Chester River Health Foundation Inc ↗

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.

Mid Shore Community F…B & R Charitable Foun…The Halprin Family Fo…The A&S Giancristofar…David a Bramble Found…Bernard and Betty Har…David E & Mary C Gall…The Seip Family Found…The Llandaff Family T…The Salem FoundationAnastasia & KR Jenkin…The Fred Frederick Fa…
Mid Shore Community Foundation IncMD45.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Friel Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Friel Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 255 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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