· Public charity
Friendship Circle International Inc
Friendship circle international provides support for more than 80 regional organizations around the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $192,792 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $257,565 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $64,773 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF BROOKLYN | $92,365 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF UPPER EAST SIDE | $45,604 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE MARYLAND | $13,040 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE FIVE TOWNS | $12,002 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF TOLEDO | $11,022 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PHILADELPHIA | $7,359 |
| LUBAVITCH YESHIVA | $6,000 |
| CHABAD UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $5,400 |
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 (FY17–20, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $40k on the FY2022 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SUPPORT FOR SERVICES
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +118% since the first grant, against +77% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- FCFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF BROOKLYN INC5× · 2017–2022 · $318k · revenue +156%
- FCFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE4× · 2017–2021 · $41k · revenue +118%
- TFTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE PHILADELPHIA REGION INC4× · 2017–2022 · $38k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- BCBroward CHAI Center Incone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +13%
THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +346%- FCFriendship Circle of Connecticut Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +33%
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.
The Friendship Circle extends respite, inclusion,support and friendship to families, children and teens with special needs and involves them in a full range of social, educational & life skills experiences. this unique formula introduces…
To provide assistance and support to the families of children with special needs.
To create an inclusive community by facilitating friendships and social opportunities for people with and without disabilities to connect through meaningful social experiences at home and throughout the community.
To provide friends and companions for children with special needs and to teach compassion and inclusion to main stream teens in a general educational environment.
Friendship Circle of Miami Beach and North Dade, Inc. provides assistance and support to the families of children with disabilities. The Organization serves more than 250 families and is served by hundreds of volunteers accross Miami-Dade…
To further jewish education and help all jews in need
The Friendship Circle provides assistance and support to the families of children with special needs.
to enrich the lives of children, teens and adults with special needs through social and recreational experiences and to inspire volunteers to participate in building a stronger and more inclusive community.
The Friendship Circle provides assistance and support to the families of children with special needs as well as to individuals and families struggling with addiction, isolation, and other crises. It provides grants for organizations to…
Friendship circle international provides support for more than 80 regional organizations around the world. the organization supports entities whose mission it is to bring happiness and companionship to children and young adults with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Friendship Circle Philadelphia Region Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Lubavitch. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 22 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
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 FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF BROOKLYN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE PHILADELPHIA REGION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSTON FRIENDSHIP AND WELLNESS CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds Broward CHAI Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds Friendship Circle of Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LUBAVITCH ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Nash Charity Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ojc Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Friendship Circle International 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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