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Philip M Friedmann Family Charitable Trust Dtd 11/09/98

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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$7
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of PHILIP M FRIEDMANN FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST DTD 11/09/98’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $7 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,517,922 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,517,915 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.

$7
Median grant
1
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Donation via MREP Global VI LP$7
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.5M · 99 repeat orgs$712k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

99 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 99 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

99
126

Total granted

$3.5M
$712k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+19%

Still filing today

65%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitInternationalHuman ServicesOther

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

  • TS
    THE SELFHELP HOME INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $217k · revenue +8%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $175k · revenue +17%
  • SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $156k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • RU
    Rush University Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +30%
  • C
    CATO
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
  • SW
    Simon Wiesenthal Center
    one grant, 2023 · $60k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

2
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
3
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
4
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
7
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
11
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyGovernment Accountability &…College Foundation SupportChildhood Cancer SupportEducation Equity InitiativesChristian Outreach Ministri…Veteran Support ServicesEnvironmental Advocacy and …Volunteer Fire & RescueCommunity Arts CentersCommunity Theater CompaniesAnimal Rescue and ShelterFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Senior Support ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …Local History MuseumsWomen's Empowerment Organiz…Classical Music OrchestrasFood Pantries and AssistanceCharter and Independent Sch…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Jewish Community FederationsCommunity Hospital Systems
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%1%<5yr13%1%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr14%34%35–55yr22%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%5%10–20yr15%21%20–35yr14%54%35–55yr22%20%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.8% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/134
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,225

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.

03the grantee network

129 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 129 of the 231 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
128/129
Grantees still filing
93/129
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Hudson Institute Inc — $150,000 · OtherHudson Institute IncAJC — $146,000 · OtherAJCShirley Ryan Ability Center — $115,000 · OtherGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $175,000 · OtherGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORYANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $85,000 · Other+130 more — $1,627,929 · Other+130 moreCATO INSTITUTE — $125,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTIT…THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $105,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAG…MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $85,000 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN I…Leadership Institute — $45,000 · Public BenefitLeadership …THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE — $23,900 · Public BenefitTHE HEARTLA…ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE — $20,000 · Public Benefit+3 more — $21,000 · Public BenefitSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $156,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIE…MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER — $125,000 · Arts & CultureMEDIA RES…FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $21,000 · Arts & CultureFIELD MUS…PARENTS TELEVISION COUNCIL INC — $20,000 · Arts & CulturePARENTS T…+6 more — $41,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $300,180 · InternationalCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC — $20,000 · International+6 more — $16,500 · InternationalFoundation for Neurologic Diseases Inc — $135,000 · HealthRush University Medical Center — $75,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $25,000 · HealthHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION — $21,500 · HealthBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $14,500 · Health+12 more — $37,000 · HealthGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $120,000 · EducationBig Shoulders Fund — $96,000 · EducationFrancis W Parker School — $34,500 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationYoung Mens Educational Network — $12,200 · Education+9 more — $28,000 · EducationTHE SELFHELP HOME INC — $216,500 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTRY — $8,500 · Human Services+5 more — $15,000 · Human Services
Other$2,298,929Public Benefit$424,900Arts & Culture$363,000International$336,680Health$308,000Education$305,700Human Services$240,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $300,180 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SELFHELP HOME INC — $216,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $175,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $156,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHudson Institute Inc — $150,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation for Neurologic Diseases Inc — $135,000 over 3y, 47% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER — $125,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $105,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund — $96,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES — $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA — $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLeadership Institute — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER — $40,625 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE — $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFrancis W Parker School — $34,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC — $27,050 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE — $23,900 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION — $21,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTS TELEVISION COUNCIL INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER — $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $14,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBill of Rights Institute — $13,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Mens Educational Network — $12,200 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH — $10,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc — $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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 WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY
  • Who funds THE SELFHELP HOME INC
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds Hudson Institute Inc
  • Who funds Foundation for Neurologic Diseases Inc
  • Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE
  • Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Big Shoulders Fund
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
  • Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
  • Who funds ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
  • Who funds Leadership Institute
  • Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER
  • Who funds Institute for Humane Studies
  • Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE
  • Who funds Francis W Parker School
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING 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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL28.6× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Donors Trust Inc · Farrell Family Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Circle of Service Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Red Bird Hollow Foundation · Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 · The Wilson Sexton Foundation · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated

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.

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Find your warmest path to Philip M Friedmann Family Charitable Trust Dtd 11/09/98 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 231 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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