How much does George and Ellen Friedman Family Foundation give?

George and Ellen Friedman Family Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $13,081 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does George and Ellen Friedman Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (56%), Education (20%), Health (6%).

Who are George and Ellen Friedman Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Congregation Beth Aaron of Teaneck ($59k), The Kever Rochel Fund Inc ($24k), Maimonides Way Inc ($13k).

Does George and Ellen Friedman Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does George and Ellen Friedman Family 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 George and Ellen Friedman Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Fjc, Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc.

Where is George and Ellen Friedman Family Foundation based?

George and Ellen Friedman Family Foundation is based in DE.

George and Ellen Friedman Family Foundation

George and Ellen Friedman Family Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$13k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$106kEducation$37kHealth$11kInternational$9kHuman Services$8kCivil Rights$5kHousing & Shelter$5kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0

02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200

Median grant

States reached

$197k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$200
MEIRAS EINOYIM	$200
THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN	$200

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$161k · 44 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$161k

$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+7%

Still filing today

75%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $808 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalEducationHealthHuman ServicesReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

TK
The Kever Rochel Fund Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +415%
MW
MAIMONIDES WAY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +60%
YN
YESHIVAT NOAM
3× · 2018–2022 · $7k · revenue +34%

Funded once

NC
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAEL
one grant, 2022 · $4k
BT
BREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +27%
HANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC
one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -35%

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.

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

Sherit Isroel

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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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American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion

Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation

Philanthropy

American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.

Religion

American Friends of Neveh Zion

To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel

Religion

Yeshivas Ohr Yissochor Academy Inc

To operate a school in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith.

Education

American Friends of Menuchas Asher Csenger Inc

To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel

Religion

American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

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

Religion

American Friends of Rabbinical College Netiv Hadaat Inc

To support, benefit, and assist yeshivat netiv hadaat- jerusalem

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

79/81

Grantees still filing

55/81

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$108,721Education$37,337Religion$14,982Health$9,523International$8,426Human Services$5,580Philanthropy$4,220

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 FundNY50.3× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

25get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home