Massachusetts · Private foundation
Friendship Foundation
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.
- $90k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $761k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Friendship Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $90k | 56% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $90k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $100k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $73k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $59k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $70k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $86k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $73k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leadership Rhode Island Educational Foundation | $110,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc | $109,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc | $92,500 | 9 | 2% |
| Actors Studio of Newburyport Inc | $54,000 | 9 | 8% |
| On Stage Inc | $40,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Society for the Development of Arts | $37,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Ballet Ri | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Sophia Academy | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Providence | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Friendship Public Library | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leadership Rhode Island Educational Foundation | $110,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc | $109,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc | $92,500 | 9 | 2% |
| Actors Studio of Newburyport Inc | $54,000 | 9 | 8% |
| On Stage Inc | $40,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Society for the Development of Arts | $37,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Ballet Ri | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Sophia Academy | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Providence | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Friendship Public Library | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Youth Development Organization Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Exit Dance Theatre Inc | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Revolve Dance Project Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Wheeler School | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Alliance of Rhode Island Southeast Asians for Education | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cranston West Alumni Association Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 7% |
| The Lady Project | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Providence Children's Museum | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($150k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Friendship Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Friendship Foundation
- How much does Friendship Foundation give?
- Friendship Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $90,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Friendship Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), Community Improvement (16%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Friendship Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Leadership Rhode Island Educational Foundation ($110k), Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc ($110k), Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc ($93k).
- Does Friendship Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Friendship Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Friendship Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Rhode Island Inc, The Rhode Island Community Foundation, Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation.
- Where is Friendship Foundation based?
- Friendship Foundation is based in MA.
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