· Private foundation
Md Friedman Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 77 grants below total $1,587,668 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,599,779 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,012,111 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k47 grants · $111k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $423k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $337k
- $250k+1 grant · $717k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YESHIVA OF TELSHE ALUMNI OF RIVERDALE | $717,004 |
| YESHIVA & MESIVTA TORAH VODAATH | $112,260 |
| THE NETZACH FOUNDATION | $74,700 |
| AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA | $50,000 |
| EZRAS CHOLIM YAD EPHRAIM | $50,000 |
| GLOBAL CENTER OF SKVER | $50,000 |
| KEREN BORUCH YITZCHOK FOUNDATION | $43,600 |
| MISASKIM | $28,600 |
| OUR PLACE | $27,800 |
| US CHAPLAINS CORP | $26,000 |
| KEREN ACHEINU BNAI YISROEL | $25,000 |
| KEREN ZICHRON CHAIM YOSEF | $25,000 |
| TOVA UVRUCHA INC | $23,750 |
| BAIS YAAKOV OF BOCA RATON | $22,500 |
| FLATBUSH COMMUNITY FUND | $18,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
116 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2023, 80 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $406k 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
- MCMISASKIM CORP5× · 2017–2023 · $80k · revenue +34%
- OPOUR PLACE INC4× · 2018–2023 · $78k · revenue +7%
- TFTHE FLATBUSH COMMUNITY FUND INC co BERNATH & ROSENBERG PC4× · 2018–2023 · $63k · revenue ×14
Funded once
- HSHATZALAH SOUTH FLORIDA EMS INCone grant, 2022 · $360k
- YOYESHIVA OF TELSHE ALUMNI RIVERDALEone grant, 2022 · $267k
- KGKEREN GEMILAS CHASODIM FOUNDATION CO READ PROPERTY GROUPone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +16%
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.
Provide financial assistance to needy individuals, and to religious, educational, and charitable organizations in us and abroad.
Provides finacial assistance to needy individuals and to religious, charitable organizations
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Religious Teaching
The purpose of this organization is to support indigent torah scholars and their families by providing stipends and additional funds at jewish holiday times.
Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide funds to needy individuals in the state of israel.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chasdei Yisroel Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ner Gavriel Fund 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 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 319 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 KEREN BORUCH YITZCHOK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISASKIM CORP ↗
- Who funds OUR PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NETZACH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLATBUSH COMMUNITY FUND INC co BERNATH & ROSENBERG PC ↗
- Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds KEREN GEMILAS CHASODIM FOUNDATION CO READ PROPERTY GROUP ↗
- Who funds Ezras Cholim Yad Ephraim Inc ↗
- Who funds MIKVAH USA INC ↗
- Who funds BAIS MEDRASH TORAS CHESED INC ↗
- Who funds BAIS YAAKOV ATERES MIRIAM ↗
- Who funds MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHASDEI YISROEL INC ↗
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 Ojc Fund · The Basch Family Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Jsw Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Allen I Gross Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Jmg Foundation · The Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn · The Fishoff Family Foundation · Donors Fund Inc
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 Md Friedman Family Foundation 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.
- Mesorah Heritage Foundation — 1% 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.