· Private foundation
Louis & Phyllis Friedman Foundation Inc
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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $466k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER | $300,000 |
| STEVENSON UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| ASSISTANCE CTR OF TOWSON CHURCHES | $100,000 |
| SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC | $61,000 |
| CARSON SCHOLARS FUND | $55,000 |
| UPPER CHESAPEAKE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER | $40,000 |
| JEWISH COMM CTR OF GR BALTIMORE | $30,000 |
| UNIV OF MD BALTIMORE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARFORD CO | $25,000 |
| ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| UNIV OF MD SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | $25,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE NEW ORLEANS | $10,000 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| CARSON SCHOLARS FUND | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–20, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 67% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GBGREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +25%
- SHSINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $586k · revenue +28%
- KKKENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- ABABERDEEN BIBLE CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $30k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MD BALTIMORE FDTN INCone grant, 2021 · $30k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO BALTOone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 53 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 GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds KENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEVENSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CARSON SCHOLARS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Upper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARFORD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CARROLL HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARFORD AND CECIL COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE HOUSING ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ALVIN S MINTZES HATZALAH OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT SUPPORT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS SCOTT KEY ELEMENTARY MIDDLE SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA 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: The Emmert Hobbs Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Herman & Walter Samuelson Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Edward St John Foundation Inc · Greenbaum Family Foundation · The Dresher Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Mary K O'Neill Foundation Inc · Michael S Hollins Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Louis & Phyllis Friedman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis & Phyllis Friedman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Disability Rights Maryland Inc dba Maryland Disability Law Center Inc: 49% of income from government
- Casa of Baltimore County Inc: 38% of income from government
- Comprehensive Housing Assistance Inc: 23% of income from government
- Harford Family House Inc: 14% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
- Stevenson University: 6% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
- Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc: 0% of income from government
- Greater Baltimore Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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