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Friends Research Institute Inc

Friends research institute is dedicated to advancing innovative research to promote health and well-being.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$200,504
Largest grant, FY2025
$524,875
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$8.5M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Health$1.5MEducation$969kScience & Tech$511k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
CA
MD
NC
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cornell University$699,18020%
Maryland Treatment Centers Inc$412,9481n/a
Research Triangle Institute$345,55820%
University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc$267,62820%
Thomas Jefferson University$221,65710%
New York University$200,5041n/a
Baymark Health Services$147,0931n/a
Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene Inc$138,86420%
Regents Univ of California$118,4562n/a
American Psychiatric Association$58,33510%
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All grantees of Friends Research Institute Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cornell University$699,18020%
Maryland Treatment Centers Inc$412,9481n/a
Research Triangle Institute$345,55820%
University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc$267,62820%
Thomas Jefferson University$221,65710%
New York University$200,5041n/a
Baymark Health Services$147,0931n/a
Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene Inc$138,86420%
Regents Univ of California$118,4562n/a
American Psychiatric Association$58,33510%
Emory University$46,77920%
Johns Hopkins University$23,46710%
University of California San Francisco$20,4301n/a
Duke University$16,18410%
Glenwood Life Counseling Center Inc$7,89010%
American Society of Addiction Medicine$6,80910%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Friends Research Institute Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $699,180 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Triangle Institute: $345,558 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: $267,628 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThomas Jefferson University: $221,657 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation for Mental Hygiene Inc: $138,864 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Psychiatric Association: $58,335 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $46,779 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $23,467 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDuke University: $16,184 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlenwood Life Counseling Center Inc: $7,890 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Society of Addiction Medicine: $6,809 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 11.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

American Academy of AddictionRI13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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Find your warmest path to Friends Research Institute Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Friends Research Institute Inc

How much does Friends Research Institute Inc give?
Friends Research Institute Inc reported 12 grants totaling $2,371,653 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Friends Research Institute Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (50%), Education (33%), Science & Tech (17%).
Who are Friends Research Institute Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Cornell University ($699k), Maryland Treatment Centers Inc ($413k), Research Triangle Institute ($346k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Friends Research Institute Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Academy of Addiction.
Where is Friends Research Institute Inc based?
Friends Research Institute Inc is based in MD.

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 17 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 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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