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Frieze Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222024.

International$3.6MPhilanthropy$1.2MEducation$950kArts & Culture$830kFood & Nutrition$750kCommunity Improvement$250kSocial Science$2kCivil Rights$600Other$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $600
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $400k
  • $250k+11 grants · $4.5M
$250,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMPACT ISRAEL$1,000,000
GRAD FUND$600,000
Individual grant recipient$500,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMWNT FUNDS$500,000
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$350,000
INNOVATION AFRICA$300,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN$250,000
YANABIA$250,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL$250,000
GOOD PEOPLES FUND DESIGNATED FOR PESIAS KITCHEN$250,000
BROTHERS FOR LIFE$250,000
OUR GENERATION SPEAKS$200,000
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS$200,000
JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK$12,500
Individual grant recipient$10,500
02The need
03

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 US giving — 87% of grant dollars ($7.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 13% that went abroad ($1.1M) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHOOSE LOVE: $250k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
MD

Beyond the US — 13% of all-years giving ($1.1M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Israel$1.1M · 4 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 23% of Frieze Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Frieze Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 13% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 6 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -17% since the first grant, against -34% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$4.0M
$352k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-17%
-34%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
InternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • II
    IMPACTISRAEL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +12%
  • IA
    INNOVATION AFRICA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $600k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $500k · revenue -17%

Funded once

  • CL
    CHOOSE LOVE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -34%
  • TM
    THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -83%
  • HS
    HELLER SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $2k

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

04Your field

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.

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Sherit Isroel
2
American Friends of Kohelet Policy Forum

The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.

3
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
4
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
5
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

6
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
7
The Jerusalem Connection
8
Partners Charity Fund for Israel

To support charitable organization and programs providing food, clothing and financial aid to indigent individuals and families in financial distress.

Philanthropy
9
The Shalem Foundation

To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.

Crime & Legal
10
Israel Venture Network

The Organization is at the forefront of the social business arena for fourth sector in Israel, nurturing and growing this emerging sector and generating sustainable social impact by providing Israel's social businesses with knowledge,…

Education
11
Friends of Jerusalem

Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.

Human Services
12
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Abraham Initiatives Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brandeis University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
3/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INNOVATION AFRICA — $600,000 · OtherINNOVATION AFRICAGRAD FUND — $600,000 · OtherGRAD FUNDIndividual grant recipient — $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYANABIA — $250,000 · OtherYANABIAGOOD PEOPLES FUND DESIGNATED FOR PESIAS KITCHEN — $250,000 · OtherGOOD PEOPLES FUND DESIGNATED FOR …INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC — $200,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRIS…+3 more — $22,000 · OtherIMPACTISRAEL INC — $2,000,000 · InternationalIMPACTISRAEL INCTHE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC — $100,000 · International+1 more — $600 · InternationalPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $500,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS …AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $500,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET I…Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $350,000 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthrop…Boston Foundation Inc — $330,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation IncROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $250,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY AD…+1 more — $35,596 · PhilanthropyBrothers for Life — $430,000 · Arts & CultureBrothers fo…OUR GENERATION SPEAKS INC — $400,000 · Arts & CultureOUR GENERAT…BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $350,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC — $250,000 · Community ImprovementCHOOSE LOVE INC — $250,000 · Human Services
Other$2,422,000International$2,100,600Philanthropy$1,965,596Arts & Culture$830,000Education$350,000Community Improvement$250,000Human Services$250,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC — $2,000,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $500,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBrothers for Life — $430,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetOUR GENERATION SPEAKS INC — $400,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $350,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $350,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $330,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHOOSE LOVE INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $35,596 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Frieze Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • Brandeis University9% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Frieze Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Frieze Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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