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Frieze Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
BROTHERS FOR LIFE$250,000
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
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS$200,000
OUR GENERATION SPEAKS$200,000
JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK$12,500
Individual grant recipient$10,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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:

Its 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 its 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
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

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

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

About 23% of Frieze Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Frieze Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 13% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -17% since the first grant, against -34% for those 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
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

  • 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
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
Sherit Isroel
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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.

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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…

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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
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Abraham Initiatives Inc; 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 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. 15 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
3/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundCombined Jewish Phila…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Frieze Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frieze Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% 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, 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.
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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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where grant money is based, and what stays home