· Private foundation
George and Ellen Friedman Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION BETH AARON | $5,410 |
| CONGREGATION BETH AARON | $1,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH AARON | $720 |
| MAIMONIDES WAY | $540 |
| DARCHAI MENACHEM INC | $500 |
| CHAI LIFELINE INC | $500 |
| P E F ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $500 |
| PROJECT EZRAH NEEDS INC | $430 |
| GLOBAL ISRAEL ALLIANCE | $360 |
| SINAI SPECIAL NEEDS INSTITUTE | $330 |
| SIMCHAS YOM TOV INC | $250 |
| SHARSHERET INC | $218 |
| MEIRAS EINOYIM | $200 |
| THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN | $200 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $200 |
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 (FY17–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $808 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
- TKThe Kever Rochel Fund Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +415%
- MWMAIMONIDES WAY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +60%
- YNYESHIVAT NOAM3× · 2018–2022 · $7k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAELone grant, 2022 · $4k
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +27%
HANDS ON TZEDAKAH INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -35%
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 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…
To further jewish education in israel
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel
To operate a school in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith.
To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To support, benefit, and assist yeshivat netiv hadaat- jerusalem
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 113 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 The Kever Rochel Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds MAIMONIDES WAY INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT NOAM ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds SINAI SPECIAL NEEDS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Yeshivat Lev Hatorah ↗
- Who funds Project Ezrah Needs Inc ↗
- Who funds KEREN HATZADIK IN MEMORY OF RABBI ARYEH LEVIN OF BLESSED MEMORY INC ↗
- Who funds Simchas Yom Tov Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE & ART ↗
- Who funds CHARIDY INC ↗
- Who funds TEANECK VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH LEARNING EXPERIENCE OF BERGEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RENEWAL OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT YECHI INC ↗
- Who funds The Frisch School ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ISRAEL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM ↗
- Who funds COMPUTER SERVICES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AREYVUT 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 · Fjc · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · The Arthur & Joyce Fein Family Foundation · The Blumenfeld Family Foundation · The Kahan Family Foundation · Granit Foundation · Cross River Community Foundation · The Ojc Fund · H&H Charitable Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc
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 George and Ellen Friedman 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.
- Jewish Family Service & Children's Center of Clifton-Passaicinc — 19% of income from government
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
- Volunteer Center of Bergen County Inc — 4% of income from government
- Chai 4EVER Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Frisch School — 0% of income from government
- Heroes to Heroes Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.