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Richard A and Susan P 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.

$4.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
53%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,000,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 20
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$9.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 53% of the organizations Richard A and Susan P Friedman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $199k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
InternationalArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEducationAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving16$4.2M44%
FY202317$1.8M53%
FY202218$5.2M61%
FY202120$4.7Mn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$10MEducation$6.0MPhilanthropy$345kArts & Culture$240kInternational$173kReligion$125kHuman Services$116kPublic Safety & Disaster$114kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 31 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard A and Susan P Friedman Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $9,000,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $5,000,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $113,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMorselife Foundation Inc: $112,800 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRaymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $112,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetArtsconnection Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Israel Education Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPga Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $36,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorton Museum of Art Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Familial Hypercholesterolemia Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Bridge Golf Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAmerican Friends of Hebrew University Inc: $14,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $11,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGuild Hall of East Hampton Inc: $11,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHorace Mann School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Tennis Centers Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSolomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York-Presbyterian Fund Inc: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach Country Club Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTri County Humane Society: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for Cancer Gene Therapy Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrooklyn Academy of Music Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Richard A and Susan P Friedman Family Foundation

How much does Richard A and Susan P Friedman Family Foundation give?
Richard A and Susan P Friedman Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $4,301,300 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 20 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Richard A and Susan P Friedman Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (27%), Education (16%), Philanthropy (1%).
Who are Richard A and Susan P Friedman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ($9.0M), University of Chicago ($5.0M), The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc ($114k).
Does Richard A and Susan P Friedman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Richard A and Susan P 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 Richard A and Susan P Friedman Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Richard A and Susan P Friedman Family Foundation based?
Richard A and Susan P Friedman Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 49 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $655k 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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