· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SISTERS OF THE HOLY CROSS | $6,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE RECOLLECT PRIORY | $6,000 |
| BENEDICTINE MISSION HOUSE | $5,000 |
| SPIRIT FILLED HEARTS MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| SANTA CLARA CHURCH | $3,000 |
| THE PADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $3,000 |
| FLAME OF LOVE OF THE IMMACULATE HEART | $3,000 |
| ASSN OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL | $2,000 |
| COMPANIONS OF ST ANTHONY | $2,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| PRIESTS OF THE SACRED HEART | $2,000 |
| SOCIETY OF THE DIVINE SAVIOR | $2,000 |
| DAUGHTERS OF ST PAUL | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIESone grant, 2020 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 78 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds SPIRIT FILLED HEARTS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John & Barbara Friedrich Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John & Barbara Friedrich Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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