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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 FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$525k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+2 grants · $938k
$200,504
Median grant
7
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE$524,875
MARYLAND TREATMENT CENTERS INC$412,948
RTI INTERNATIONAL$239,830
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY$221,657
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$219,294
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$200,504
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND-BALTIMORE$183,199
BAYMARK HEALTH SERVICES$147,093
RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC$124,913
THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$52,500
EMORY UNIVERSITY$20,444
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$20,430
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $222k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $20k → 10%THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $66k → 14%RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC: $125k → 14%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $525k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $219k → 17%BAYMARK HEALTH SERVICES: $147k → 8%AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION: $58k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 11%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $26k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ADDICTION MEDICINE: $7k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $23k → 19%THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $53k → 14%RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC: $14k → 14%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $174k → 16%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $201k → 17%RTI INTERNATIONAL: $240k → 11%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%MARYLAND TREATMENT CENTERS INC: $413k → 19%RTI INTERNATIONAL: $106k → 11%GLENWOOD LIFE COUNSELING CENTER INC: $8k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND-BALTIMORE: $183k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND-BALTIMORE: $84k → 19%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

NY
PA
CA
MD
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 6 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$1.6M
$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+1%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
EducationHealthScience & TechCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • Cornell University
    2× · 2024–2025 · $699k · revenue +14%
  • RT
    Research Triangle Institute
    2× · 2024–2025 · $346k · revenue -11%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $268k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • AP
    AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $58k · revenue 0%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $23k · revenue +1%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $16k · 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
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
3
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
4
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
5
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
6
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
7
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
8
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
9
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
10
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
11
A T Still University of Health Sciences

A.T. Still University of Health Sciences serves as a learning-centered university dedicated to preparing highly competent professionals through innovative academic programs. The University is committed to continuing its osteopathic…

Education
12
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornell University; the most unlike its peers is Glenwood Life Counseling Center Inc. 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

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cornell University: $699,180 · EducationCornell UniversityUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $267,628 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INCTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $221,657 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $219,294 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKNew York University: $200,504 · EducationNew York University+3 more: $86,430 · EducationMARYLAND TREATMENT CENTERS INC: $412,948 · OtherMARYLAND TREATMENT CENTERS…BAYMARK HEALTH SERVICES: $147,093 · OtherBAYMARK HEALTH SERVICESREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $118,456 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA+1 more: $20,430 · OtherResearch Triangle Institute: $345,558 · Science & TechResearch Tria…RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC: $138,864 · HealthGLENWOOD LIFE COUNSELING CENTER INC: $7,890 · HealthAMERICAN SOCIETY OF ADDICTION MEDICINE: $6,809 · HealthAMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION: $58,335 · Community Improvement
Education$1,694,693Other$698,927Science & Tech$345,558Health$153,563Community Improvement$58,335

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

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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $219,294 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
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.

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

Open a dossier: American Academy of Addiction

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 Friends Research Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Friends Research Institute Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • American Society of Addiction Medicine: 9% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Friends Research Institute Inc?

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.

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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