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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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARFORD CO | $25,000 |
| UNIV OF MD SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | $25,000 |
| UNIV OF MD BALTIMORE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| CARSON SCHOLARS FUND | $10,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE NEW ORLEANS | $10,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS KIMMEL CANCER CENTER | $10,000 |
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.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
- 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
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Maryland Spca Inc and the most unlike its peers is Animal Rescue New Orleans 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
30 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 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- 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 THE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ALVIN S MINTZES HATZALAH OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS SCOTT KEY ELEMENTARY MIDDLE SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT SUPPORT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
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 Louis & Phyllis Friedman Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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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