· Private foundation
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| ST AUGUSTINE RECOLLECT PRIORY | $6,000 |
| SISTERS OF THE HOLY CROSS | $6,000 |
| SPIRIT FILLED HEARTS MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| BENEDICTINE MISSION HOUSE | $5,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| FLAME OF LOVE OF THE IMMACULATE HEART | $3,000 |
| THE PADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $3,000 |
| SANTA CLARA CHURCH | $3,000 |
| MARY STAR OF THE SEA CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $2,000 |
| ASSN OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL | $2,000 |
| ABBAYE ST JOSEPH DE CLAIRVAL | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD | $2,000 |
| SOCIETY OF THE DIVINE SAVIOR | $2,000 |
| ST PAUL'S CHURCH | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
72 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- SFSPIRIT FILLED HEARTS MINISTRY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +25%
- PPPADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +112%
- FSFOOD SHARE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIESone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church
Ave Maria Communications (AMC)employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotion and music to demonstrate Catholic values.
Keep the faith is a catholic lay apostolate devoted to assist in the dissemanation of good catholic doctrine
Education of students in ministerial formation: catholic priesthood and lay ministry.
Relevant radio - bringing christ to the world through the media.
Publish catholic books in support of eternal word television network, inc.
Exaltation of god evangelization of the world
To procure and deliver bold, authentically catholic radio programming for listeners across west michigan.
Ave maria academy is a catholic school of academic excellence for boys and girls from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. the school must meet all state educational requirements and testing standards.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Augustine Academy. 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 80 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 78 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 SPIRIT FILLED HEARTS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LA PROMESA FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 John & Barbara Friedrich 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.