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John & Barbara Friedrich 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.

$73k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2025
30
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
30 to 56
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
13
Total assets, FY2025
$1.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations John & Barbara Friedrich Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving30$76k13%
FY202430$72k0%
FY202341$100k0%
FY202244$109k9%
FY202153$104k2%
FY202056$110k21%
FY201955$102k0%
FY201856$95k0%
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$487kEducation$73kHuman Services$58kArts & Culture$44kInternational$29kHealth$17kRecreation & Sports$17kFood & Nutrition$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Benedictine Mission House$41,0009n/a
Spirit Filled Hearts Ministry Inc$26,00062%
Padre Pio Foundation of America Inc$24,00090%
Santa Clara Church$18,0007n/a
St Johns Seminary in California Jackie Rotter$17,0006n/a
Association of the Miraculous Medal$16,5009n/a
Thomas Aquinas College$15,00030%
Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc$15,00090%
Food Share Inc$14,50090%
Seraphic Mass Association Inc$14,0007n/a
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All grantees of John & Barbara Friedrich Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Benedictine Mission House$41,0009n/a
Spirit Filled Hearts Ministry Inc$26,00062%
Padre Pio Foundation of America Inc$24,00090%
Santa Clara Church$18,0007n/a
St Johns Seminary in California Jackie Rotter$17,0006n/a
Association of the Miraculous Medal$16,5009n/a
Thomas Aquinas College$15,00030%
Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc$15,00090%
Food Share Inc$14,50090%
Seraphic Mass Association Inc$14,0007n/a
Priests of the Sacred Heart$14,0008n/a
Society of the Divine Savior$12,0006n/a
Christendom Educational Corporation$12,00050%
St Augustine Academy$10,00050%
Eternal Word Television Network Inc$9,00030%
Mission of Our Lady of Mercy$9,0007n/a
Guest House Inc$9,00070%
La Promesa Foundation$9,00070%
Society of the Little Flower$8,0004n/a
Cabrini Mission Foundation$7,50060%
American Life League Inc$7,50050%
Covenant House California$7,00050%
National Shrine of St Rita of Cascia Inc$7,0004n/a
Santa Clara High School$6,0003n/a
St Josephs Indian School$5,0005n/a
St Labre Indian School$5,0005n/a
St Anthony Indian Mission$5,0005n/a
Office of Restorative Justice$4,5003n/a
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church$4,0002n/a

Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($508k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John & Barbara Friedrich Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSpirit Filled Hearts Ministry Inc: $26,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetPadre Pio Foundation of America Inc: $24,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThomas Aquinas College: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Medical Mission Board Inc: $15,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFood Share Inc: $14,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChristendom Educational Corporation: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Augustine Academy: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEternal Word Television Network Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGuest House Inc: $9,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLa Promesa Foundation: $9,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCabrini Mission Foundation: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Life League Inc: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House California: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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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.

B & R Charitable Foundation IncTN19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: B & R Charitable Foundation Inc · The Salem Foundation · James J Capone Charitable Foundati · Anastasia & KR Jenkins Foundation · Alexander and Linda Milley Foundation · John a & Mary Pollock Yanta Memorial Tr · Verizon Foundation · Rcp Foundation · Marian Family Foundation · The R&C Giancristofaro Family Foundation Inc · The Miles Family Foundation · Cousineau Family Charity

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.

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About John & Barbara Friedrich Foundation

How much does John & Barbara Friedrich Foundation give?
John & Barbara Friedrich Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $73,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 56 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does John & Barbara Friedrich Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (56%), Education (8%), Human Services (7%).
Who are John & Barbara Friedrich Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Benedictine Mission House ($41k), Spirit Filled Hearts Ministry Inc ($26k), Padre Pio Foundation of America Inc ($24k).
Does John & Barbara Friedrich Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John & Barbara Friedrich 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 John & Barbara Friedrich Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include B & R Charitable Foundation Inc, The Salem Foundation, James J Capone Charitable Foundati.
Where is John & Barbara Friedrich Foundation based?
John & Barbara Friedrich Foundation is based in CA.

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 78 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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