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Gerald J & Dorothy R Friedman Foundation Inc

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.

$53k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
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01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$10MMembership Benefit$1.0MHealth$135kEducation$66kPhilanthropy$60kCrime & Legal$35kFood & Nutrition$34kHuman Services$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$53,315
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GERALD J & DOROTHY R FRIEDMAN NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH$53,315
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%luciente inc: $25k → 18%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 12 repeat orgs$434k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
29

Total granted

$11M
$381k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+37%

Still filing today

83%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyMembership BenefitOther
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

  • HA
    HOWL ARTS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $8.2M · revenue +41% · 93% of their budget
  • LM
    LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.3M · revenue +77%
  • TA
    THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.0M · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • Trustees of Tufts Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $66k · revenue +50%
  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -28%
  • Center for Food Safety
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -2%
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
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
3
The Tank Ltd

The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
5
Apex Art Curatorial Program Inc

Apex Art Curatorial Program is a resolutely noncommercial visual art exhibition space which provides curators and artists with a venue dedicated to ideas that are often too provocative or too small in scope for display elsewhere. Apex Art…

Arts & Culture
6
Nicus Spoon Inc

The production of theater for and with disabled and marginalized artists. also the creation of NY theatrical standards.

Arts & Culture
7
Art of Brooklyn Festival

The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is an annual event that brings Brooklyns celebrated film and media makers together with their peers across the country and around the world. AoBFF is a filmmaker-focused event, platform and showcase for…

Arts & Culture
8
What Will the Neighbors Say

What Will the Neighbors Say? is an investigative theatre company that provokes questions through untold stories. Led by a collaborative cohort of international artists, the Neighbors present overlooked social, cultural and historical…

Arts & Culture
9
The Brick Theater Inc

Production of original theater at its Brooklyn, NY space.

Arts & Culture
10
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
11
Hovnatan Arts Nyc Inc
Arts & Culture
12
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America; the most unlike its peers is Howl Arts 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

35 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. 35 of the 43 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/35
Grantees still filing
24/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOWL ARTS INC: $8,172,144 · Arts & CultureHOWL ARTS INCLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC: $1,295,250 · Arts & CultureLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC+11 more: $378,345 · Arts & CultureTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $1,039,541 · Membership BenefitTHE ACTOR…ROSIE'S THEATRE KIDS: $378,000 · OtherTHE POETRY PROJECT LTD: $73,000 · OtherDIXON PLACE - PERFORMANCE THEATER: $60,000 · OtherNEW YORK CITY GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT: $25,000 · OtherThe Solo Foundation Inc: $25,000 · OtherLUCIENTE INC: $25,000 · Other+12 more: $107,300 · OtherTHE GERALD J AND DOROTHY R FRIEDMAN NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $53,315 · PhilanthropyNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropyTHE KRISTEN ANN CARR FUND: $11,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT INC: $40,000 · HealthLenox Hill Hospital: $18,629 · HealthTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · HealthNAMI National: $5,000 · HealthTrustees of Tufts College: $65,734 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationCenter for Food Safety: $25,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$9,845,739Membership Benefit$1,039,541Other$693,300Philanthropy$104,315Health$73,629Education$67,734Food & Nutrition$28,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOWL ARTS INC: $8,172,144 over 7y, 93% of budgetLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC: $1,295,250 over 2y, 24% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $1,039,541 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBOWERY ARTS AND SCIENCE LTD: $217,245 over 2y, 28% of budgetTHE POETRY PROJECT LTD: $73,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $65,734 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GERALD J AND DOROTHY R FRIEDMAN NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $53,315 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVANGELINE THEATER INC: $50,600 over 2y, 35% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK CITY GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCenter for Food Safety: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Solo Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLenox Hill Hospital: $18,629 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KRISTEN ANN CARR FUND: $11,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDOWNTOWN MUSIC PRODUCTIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetCHEBRA AGUDAS ACHIM CHESED SHEL EMETH HEBREW FREE BURIAL ASSOCIATIONINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMILITARY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARIBBEING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetThe New American Cinema Group Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DIASPORAN ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $7,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANDAGER PRESENTATIONS: $5,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetMOVEMENT RESEARCH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNAMI National: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESIDENCY UNLIMITED INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALPINE LEARNING GROUP EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $2,000 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.

The Gerald J and Doro…The Ford FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…American Express Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman New York Foundation for Medical ResearchNY30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Express Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Gerald J & Dorothy R Friedman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerald J & Dorothy R Friedman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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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Find your warmest path to Gerald J & Dorothy R Friedman Foundation Inc 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 43 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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