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Md Friedman Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$3.6M
Granted FY2023
77
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$717k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$4.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$360kHuman Services$258kArts & Culture$170kInternational$152kPhilanthropy$145kFood & Nutrition$135kHealth$43kOther$0
02FY2023 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 77 grants below total $1,587,668, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,599,779 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,012,111 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k47 grants · $111k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $423k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $337k
  • $250k+1 grant · $717k
$3,600
Median grant
5
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HELPING HANDS: $4k → 14%KEREN SIMCHAS CHOSSON V'KALLAH: $2k → 20%YDT ALUMNI CHESED FUND: $4k → 13%ZICHRON AVROHAM V'ESTHER FUND: $3k → 14%MY EXTENDED FAMILY: $7k → 20%ZICHRON AVROHAM V'ESTHER FUND: $2k → 14%ZICHRON AVROHAM V'ESTHER FUND: $1k → 14%TEHILLAT NAAVA SHLACH LACHMECHA: $3k → 20%MISASKIM: $20k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $15k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $10k → 20%MISASKIM: $4k → 20%MISASKIM: $3k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $4k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $3k → 11%TEHILLAT NAAVA SHLACH LACHMECHA: $360 → 20%KIMPATORIN AID: $300 → 20%KIMPATORIN AID: $100 → 20%BONEI OLAM: $250 → 20%AHAVAS CHESED FUND: $7k → 20%BOBBIE'S PLACE: $180 → 20%THE CHEVRA GEMACH: $500 → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
MD
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 116 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

116
162

Total granted

$4.3M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+38%

Still filing today

26%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $406k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’22’23
Human ServicesEducationReligionPhilanthropyHealthInternationalOther
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

  • MC
    MISASKIM CORP
    5× · 2017–2023 · $80k · revenue +34%
  • OP
    OUR PLACE INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $78k · revenue +7%
  • TF
    THE FLATBUSH COMMUNITY FUND INC co BERNATH & ROSENBERG PC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $63k · revenue ×14

Funded once

  • HS
    HATZALAH SOUTH FLORIDA EMS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $360k
  • YO
    YESHIVA OF TELSHE ALUMNI RIVERDALE
    one grant, 2022 · $267k
  • KG
    KEREN GEMILAS CHASODIM FOUNDATION CO READ PROPERTY GROUP
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +16%
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.

1
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
3
Chasdei Yetev Lev Inc

Provide financial assistance to needy individuals, and to religious, educational, and charitable organizations in us and abroad.

—
4
Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc
Philanthropy
5
Zichron Meshilem Feish Inc

Provides finacial assistance to needy individuals and to religious, charitable organizations

—
6
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.

Education
7
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
8
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

—
9
Yeshivas Toras Zev Inc

The purpose of this organization is to support indigent torah scholars and their families by providing stipends and additional funds at jewish holiday times.

Religion
10
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship
Religion
12
Yeshiva Yismach Moshe

Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide funds to needy individuals in the state of israel.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chasdei Yisroel Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 319 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/65
Grantees still filing
50/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YESHIVA OF TELSHE ALUMNI OF RIVERDALE: $1,636,339 · OtherYESHIVA OF TELSHE ALUMNI OF RIVERDALEHATZALAH SOUTH FLORIDA EMS INC: $360,000 · OtherHATZALAH SOUTH FLORIDA EMS INCYESHIVA & MESIVTA TORAH VODAATH: $330,870 · OtherYESHIVA & MESIVTA TORAH VODAATHYESHIVATH TORAH VODAATH: $291,520 · OtherYESHIVATH TORAH VODAATHYESHIVA OF TELSHE ALUMNI RIVERDALE: $266,669 · OtherMESIVTA OHR CHAIM MEIR INC: $190,000 · Other+161 more: $2,154,040 · Other+161 moreMISASKIM CORP: $79,500 · Human ServicesTHE NETZACH FOUNDATION INC: $74,700 · Human ServicesBonei Olam Inc: $25,500 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $11,500 · Human ServicesZICHRON AVROHOM VESTHER FUND: $10,860 · Human ServicesMY EXTENDED FAMILY INC: $10,800 · Human Services+6 more: $22,860 · Human ServicesKEREN BORUCH YITZCHOK FOUNDATION: $94,200 · ReligionMIKVAH USA INC: $40,000 · ReligionCHAYIM V CHESED: $24,000 · Religion+3 more: $7,265 · ReligionTHE FLATBUSH COMMUNITY FUND INC co BERNATH & ROSENBERG PC: $63,000 · PhilanthropyKEREN GEMILAS CHASODIM FOUNDATION CO READ PROPERTY GROUP: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCHASDEI YISROEL INC: $26,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $7,860 · PhilanthropyBAIS MEDRASH TORAS CHESED INC: $33,315 · EducationBAIS YAAKOV ATERES MIRIAM: $31,800 · EducationYESHIVA GEDOLA OF THE MIDWEST: $12,500 · EducationCENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN JEWISH EDUCATION: $10,000 · EducationLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC: $5,050 · Education+2 more: $4,500 · EducationOUR PLACE INC: $78,400 · Youth DevelopmentALWAYS OUR KIDS INC: $7,200 · Youth DevelopmentEzras Cholim Yad Ephraim Inc: $50,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$5,229,438Human Services$235,720Religion$165,465Philanthropy$146,860Education$97,165Youth Development$85,600Food & Nutrition$50,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKEREN BORUCH YITZCHOK FOUNDATION: $94,200 over 4y, 27% of budgetMISASKIM CORP: $79,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetOUR PLACE INC: $78,400 over 4y, 12% of budgetTHE NETZACH FOUNDATION INC: $74,700 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE FLATBUSH COMMUNITY FUND INC co BERNATH & ROSENBERG PC: $63,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $51,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKEREN GEMILAS CHASODIM FOUNDATION CO READ PROPERTY GROUP: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEzras Cholim Yad Ephraim Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMIKVAH USA INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBAIS MEDRASH TORAS CHESED INC: $33,315 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBAIS YAAKOV ATERES MIRIAM: $31,800 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHASDEI YISROEL INC: $26,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $25,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHAYIM V CHESED: $24,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA GEDOLA OF THE MIDWEST: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZICHRON AVROHOM VESTHER FUND: $10,860 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMY EXTENDED FAMILY INC: $10,800 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN JEWISH EDUCATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKEREN EZER LNEFESH: $8,400 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALWAYS OUR KIDS INC: $7,200 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC: $5,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMUNAH VCHESED INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTEHILLAT NAAVA SHLACH LACHMECHA FOUNDATION INC: $4,360 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC: $4,360 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS INC: $3,600 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetALL FOR THE BOYS INC: $3,600 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetYDT ALUMNI CHESED FUND INC: $3,600 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBL GIRLS TOWN JERUSALEM INC: $3,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF EMUNAH VCHESED: $3,600 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHAIM MEIR CAMP FUND: $3,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetKIDS-N-CAMP FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD LIFE SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH CAMP SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DA'AS CHOCHMA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATSKILLS HATZALAH INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTZUR FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKeren Simchas Chosson Ve Kallah: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT REFUAH INC: $1,800 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

The Ojc FundThe Basch Family Foun…Jack Adjmi Family Fou…National Society for …Jsw FoundationZichron Chaim Charity…Allen I Gross Charita…Jewish Communal FundThe Jmg FoundationThe Nathan and Marily…The Fishoff Family Fo…Donors Fund Inc
The Ojc FundNY88× affinity97 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Md Friedman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Md Friedman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Mesorah Heritage Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 319 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $4.2M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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