· Private foundation
M & E Friedman Charitable Foundation
Its FY2026 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, FY2021 to 2026.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k10 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
Anchored by a single position: about 100% of reported assets are held in Rbc.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Koilel Shema Institute | $105,000 |
| Elef Hamugien | $45,000 |
| OJC Fund | $10,000 |
| MISC Donations to other approved ch | $9,517 |
| Congregagtion Rachmistrivka | $9,000 |
| Yeshivas Orchas Chaim | $6,400 |
| Aderes Bais Yaakov | $6,000 |
| Cheder Menachem | $5,000 |
| American Friends of Jerusalem Insti | $3,600 |
| Congregation Ani Maamin Bnos Chomes | $3,000 |
| Bais Yaakov High School Lakewood | $3,000 |
| Yeshivah Gedolah Keren Hatorah | $3,000 |
| Bnos Yaakov Elementary School | $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 (FY22–22, $540) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ABADERES BAIS YAAKOV INC4× · 2023–2026 · $25k · revenue +9%
- YOYESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC3× · 2021–2026 · $14k · revenue +12%
- CLCHAI LIFELINE INC2× · 2022–2023 · $750 · revenue +13%
Funded once
- KSKOILE SHMA INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $60k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $52k
- KSKOILE SHEMA INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $44k
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.
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
Providing jewish and secular education for high school aged girls.
The organization operates a religious/parochial high school and college in lakewood, nj.
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
Operation of an orthodox jewish educational institution, providing high school level religious education to approximately 40 students
To provide secondary high school education in Brooklyn, NY
Providing jewish education to high school age students.
Organization is a Religious High School established that is consistent with the tenets, beliefs, and guidance of Rabbinic and Yeshiva Ultra - Orthodox Judaism for Jewish woman with a rigorous academic secular and general education.
Providing secular and religious education for high school aged students
Religious School
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 59 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.
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 Ojc Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Donors Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jmf Charitable Foundation · Tifferet Moshe Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Joe & Eileen Sutton Family Foundation · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · Fjc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization M & E Friedman Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from M & E Friedman Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yeshiva Orchos Chaim Inc: 5% of income from government
- Yeshiva Gedolah Keren Hatorah Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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