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Joshua S and Beth C Friedman Foundation at a glance

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Joshua S and Beth C Friedman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.1MHealth$2.5MScience & Tech$1.1MEducation$1.0MReligion$20kRecreation & Sports$10kHuman Services$10kFood & Nutrition$1k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCLA FOUNDATION - OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY$500,000
UCLA FOUNDATION - REPRODUCTIVE SCIENCES$500,000
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART$100,000
THE BACH JEWISH CENTRE OF LONG BEACH$20,000
FRIENDS OF DUVDEVAN$10,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $500k → 8%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $300k → 14%THE BACH JEWISH CENTRE OF LONG BEACH: $20k → 6%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $5k → 17%SHARE OUR STRENGTH: $1k → 14%FRIENDS OF DUVDEVAN: $10k → 8%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $500k → 8%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $250k → 14%LINCOLN CVENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1.0M → 17%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $500k → 8%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $15k → 14%THE BRIDGE GOLF FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $1k → 8%THE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $50k → 14%THE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $30k → 14%UCLA FOUNDATION - OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY: $1.0M → 14%UCLA FOUNDATION - OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY: $500k → 14%UCLA FOUNDATION - OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY: $500k → 14%UCLA FOUNDATION - REPRODUCTIVE SCIENCES: $500k → 14%LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $1.0M → 14%LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $1.0M → 14%LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $100k → 14%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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 3 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$4.7M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+46%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $530k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MA
    MUSEUM ASSOCIATES
    3× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +89%
  • UF
    UCLA FOUNDATION - OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.0M
  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    3× · 2018–2021 · $565k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • LC
    LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue 0%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +31%
  • TJ
    THE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +81%
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
3
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
7
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
8
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Duvdevan. 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $2,100,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATESLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC+1 more: $50,000 · Arts & CultureUCLA FOUNDATION - OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY: $2,000,000 · OtherUCLA FOUNDATION - OBSTETRICS & GYNECO…UCLA FOUNDATION - REPRODUCTIVE SCIENCES: $500,000 · OtherUCLA FOUNDATION - REPRODUCTIVE SCIENC…+3 more: $51,000 · OtherPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,501,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harva…CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $565,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNO…The Bridge Golf Foundation: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF DUVDEVAN: $10,000 · PhilanthropyNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $5,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$3,150,000Other$2,551,000Education$2,066,000Youth Development$10,000Philanthropy$10,000Health$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $2,100,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,501,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $565,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Bridge Golf Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF DUVDEVAN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $1,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joshua S and Beth C Friedman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joshua S and Beth C Friedman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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