California · Private foundation
Ray & Lorraine Friedman Family Foundation
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.
- $71k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,071
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 122
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $183k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Ray & Lorraine Friedman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $67k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $55k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $60k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $58k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $45k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 95 | $241k | 37% |
| FY2019 | 122 | $133k | 84% |
| FY2017 | 42 | $80k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $48,700 | 7 | 0% |
| Ethos California | $35,200 | 5 | 24% |
| AMCHA Initiative | $20,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Connecting a Caring Community | $13,200 | 8 | 2% |
| Chrysalis | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation or Ami | $7,400 | 4 | n/a |
| Point Foundation | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Diabetes Association | $6,050 | 7 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Jewish Committee | $5,000 | 7 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 150 recipients with no EIN on record ($541k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ray & Lorraine Friedman Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Ray & Lorraine Friedman Family Foundation
- How much does Ray & Lorraine Friedman Family Foundation give?
- Ray & Lorraine Friedman Family Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $71,121 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 122 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Ray & Lorraine Friedman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (28%), Human Services (16%), Health (14%).
- Who are Ray & Lorraine Friedman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($49k), Ethos California ($35k), AMCHA Initiative ($20k).
- Does Ray & Lorraine Friedman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ray & Lorraine Friedman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ray & Lorraine Friedman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, The Ahmanson Foundation, California Community Foundation.
- Where is Ray & Lorraine Friedman Family Foundation based?
- Ray & Lorraine Friedman Family Foundation is based in CA.
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