· Private foundation
Leonard and Teresa 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TORCH TORAH OUTREACH RESOURCES | $24,000 |
| HAPPY LUNGS PROJECT | $20,000 |
| EMERY WEINER SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF IDF | $20,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF ISRAEL | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH YESHURUN | $3,500 |
| GULF MEADOWS CHURCH | $2,000 |
| ONE WITH ISRAEL | $2,000 |
| DEAN BIBLE MINISTRIES INC | $2,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| METHODIST HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE THGAAC | $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 (FY21–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
53 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BIBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +19%
- HLHAPPY LUNGS PROJECT3× · 2021–2024 · $41k · revenue +156%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES4× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- TCTORCH CENTREone grant, 2023 · $26k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $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.
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How this is measured
36 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. 36 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 BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAPPY LUNGS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds DEAN BIBLE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds GOLDBERG MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Texas Heart Institute ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds Israel 21c ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Houston · Houston Jewish Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leonard and Teresa Friedman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leonard and Teresa Friedman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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