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Leo & Rhea Fay Fruhman 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.

$427k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$340k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Human Services$1.6MPhilanthropy$383kHealth$378kEducation$164kReligion$123kFood & Nutrition$109kCivil Rights$69kInternational$58kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $87k
  • $250k+1 grant · $340k
$340,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITY DAF$340,000
FIDELITY CHARITY DAF$87,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LEARNING ALLY: $3k → 11%CITY HOUSE: $10k → 5%LEARNING ALLY: $3k → 11%PROSPERITY ME: $3k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $2k → 7%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $5k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 56 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

56 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
19

Total granted

$2.7M
$133k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+50%

Still filing today

66%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentReligionOther

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

  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    3× · 2020–2022 · $80k · revenue +35%
  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $40k · revenue +4%
  • VV
    VERDE VALLEY SCHOOL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $31k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • LD
    LEVEY DAY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +73%
  • TS
    TEXAS SCOTISH RITE HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • JC
    Jewish Community Alliance Southern Mainegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +145%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
Torah Day School of Dallas

Torah Day School of Dallas is a day school for jewish children grades kindergarden through eigth grade along with pre-school for one through four year old jewish children. The school provides a general studies and secular education meeting…

Education
4
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
5
Denver Academy of Torah

Denver academy of torah (the "school")provides education to students from kindergarten through high school. the school's mission is to nuture students to be torah-observant role models and future leaders through an intellectually rigorous…

Education
6
The Pardes Jewish Day School Inc

The pardes jewish day school prepares students to become outstanding members of society through a rigorous secular and judaic education, a nurturing community, and a foundation in reform judaism that welcomes all jewish traditions.

Education
7
Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School

Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…

8
Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle

Jds is committed to providing an innovative academic program through a rigorous integrated, inquiry-based curriculum with general & judaic studies, empowering children to grow into capable, wise, and compassionate upstanders.

Education
9
Denver Jewish Day School

To ensure a jewish future by challenging minds and nurturing souls with a focus on academic excellence and jewish learning.

Education
10
Abraham Joshua Heschel School

The abraham joshua heschel school is an independent jewish day school which includes students from a wide range of jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs. (see schedule o for continuation)

Education
11
Atlanta Jewish Academy Inc

Atlanta jewish academy is a college preparatory, co-educational, preschool-12th grade, independent jewish day school, guided by modern orthodox values and principles. we embody the ideals of community, tradition, individual development and…

Education
12
Jewish Silicon Valley

The mission of jewish silicon valley is to harness the power of community to improve lives, build bridges of understanding and strengthen the jewish people here, in israel, and around the world.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas and the most unlike its peers is Sailfish Sport Project Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCharter Schools and Academi…Dallas Community FoundationsIsrael-Focused Jewish Organ…Community Arts OrganizationsSupportive Housing Developm…Animal Rescue and ShelterYouth Sports Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr14%37%35–55yr14%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr19%12%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr14%52%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/56
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,302

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.

04the grantee network

52 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
40/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITY DAF — $1,638,500 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITY DAFJEWISH FAMILY SEVICE — $115,000 · Other+49 more — $697,100 · Other+49 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS — $191,500 · PhilanthropyJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine — $14,000 · PhilanthropyTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $50,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $30,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $15,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $12,500 · HealthARMS WIDE OPEN CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS — $6,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association — $6,000 · HealthVOGEL ALCOVE — $30,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE — $14,000 · Human ServicesCITY HOUSE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesKID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE — $10,000 · Human ServicesLearning Ally Inc — $6,000 · Human ServicesPROSPERITYME — $3,000 · Human Services+2 more — $3,000 · Human ServicesThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $40,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $16,000 · International+1 more — $1,500 · InternationalTHE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $16,500 · Arts & CultureDallas Jewish Historical Society — $2,000 · Arts & CultureBOULDER COMMUNITY BROADCAST ASSOC INC — $1,750 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $24,000 · Civil RightsMoveOn Education Fund — $9,250 · Civil Rights
Other$2,450,600Philanthropy$205,500Health$129,500Human Services$76,000International$57,500Arts & Culture$51,250Civil Rights$33,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS — $191,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVERDE VALLEY SCHOOL — $31,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEVEY DAY SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACCESS FUND — $17,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $16,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEDONA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $16,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRESCOTT COLLEGE INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetThe Winston School — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House of Dallas Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEDONA RED ROCK TRAIL FUND — $15,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine — $14,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE — $14,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLAGSTAFF ARTS AND LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARMS WIDE OPEN CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSedona Montessori School Inc — $10,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetCITY HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMINNIES FOOD PANTRY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMoveOn Education Fund — $9,250 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGRAND CANYON YOUTH INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLearning Ally Inc — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPERITYME — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPREBLE STREET — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAILFISH SPORT PROJECT INC — $2,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetDallas Jewish Historical Society — $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBOULDER COMMUNITY BROADCAST ASSOC INC — $1,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Sylvan T Baer FoundationTX20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sylvan T Baer Foundation · The Jeff & Bonnie Whitman Charitable Foundation · Mb and Edna Zale Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · The Mitchell L and Miriam Lewis Barnett Charitable Trust · Navias Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas · Hillcrest Foundation · Morton H Meyerson Family Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc

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 Leo & Rhea Fay Fruhman 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Learning Ally Inc4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to Leo & Rhea Fay Fruhman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Leo & Rhea Fay Fruhman Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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