How much does Lisa and Maury Friedman Foundation give?

Lisa and Maury Friedman Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $89,989 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Lisa and Maury Friedman Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (27%), International (10%), Environment (8%).

Who are Lisa and Maury Friedman Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ikar ($198k), Shalom Institute Camp & Conference Center ($45k), Community Partners ($28k).

Does Lisa and Maury Friedman Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Lisa and Maury Friedman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Lisa and Maury Friedman Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, Covenant Foundation, Jewish Federation Council of Greater La.

Where is Lisa and Maury Friedman Foundation based?

Lisa and Maury Friedman Foundation is based in CA.

Lisa and Maury Friedman Foundation

Lisa and Maury Friedman Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Lisa and Maury Friedman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$90k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$49k

Largest

01What it funds

0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$266kInternational$98kEnvironment$82kPhilanthropy$77kArts & Culture$66kHuman Services$33kCommunity Improvement$29kEducation$14kOther$0

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k21 grants · $31k
$10k–50k2 grants · $59k

$285

Median grant

States reached

$115k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
IKAR	$48,798
Shalom Institute Camp and Conferenc	$10,415
J Give	$8,900
Community Partners	$5,075
Liberty Hill Foundation	$5,000
ADAMAH	$2,655
ADVOT	$2,500
DAYENY	$2,000
Friends of Arava Institute	$2,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND	$1,000
SHEMESH INSTITUTE	$373
GoFundMe	$285
Streets Are For Everyone	$274
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATION CENTER OF	$155
CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK	$107

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$513k · 37 repeat orgs$297k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$513k

$289k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-35%

+56%

Still filing today

49%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

SI
SHALOM INSTITUTE CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER
8× · 2018–2025 · $45k · revenue +88%
CP
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
6× · 2019–2025 · $28k · revenue +169%
JF
JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK
3× · 2017–2022 · $11k · revenue +80%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $255k
AF
American Friends of the Heschel Cen
one grant, 2017 · $10k
J
JUMPSTART
one grant, 2020 · $5k

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.

Jumpstart Labs Inc Dba Jewish Jumpstart Jslabs

To develop, strengthen, and learn from nonprofit, philanthropic, public, as well as other projects, organizations, and networks that benefit society by advancing civic engagement, community-building, culture, education, religion, service,…

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The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture

Jews of Color Initiative

The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…

Civil Rights

Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International

The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion

Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy

Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy

National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement

Avodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc

Avodah develops lifelong social justice leaders whose work is informed by jewish values and who inspire the jewish community to work toward a more just and equitable world.

Community Improvement

Better Food Foundation Inc

To promote dietary changes to build a healthy, equitable, humane, and environmentally-sustainable food system.

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network; the most unlike its peers is Ho Chou Family Foundation. 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

60 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. 60 of the 122 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

59/60

Grantees still filing

35/60

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$677,746Philanthropy$149,178Youth Development$44,901Human Services$34,315Community Improvement$28,405Education$21,854Environment$15,407

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.

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.

Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA21.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Covenant Foundation · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Upstart Bay Area · The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation Inc · Houston Jewish Community Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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The camps

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