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Robert & Linda Friedman Foundation at a glance

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Robert & Linda Friedman Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$207k
Granted FY2026still arriving
39
Grants FY2026still arriving
7
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2026.

Health$159kInternational$111kArts & Culture$63kReligion$50kEducation$44kPhilanthropy$24kCivil Rights$21kHuman Services$21kOther$0
02FY2026 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k33 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $117k
$2,877
Median grant
7
States reached
$482k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$45,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA$17,000
KRAVIS CENTER$15,219
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FDN$15,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$15,000
WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL$10,000
NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY$7,500
JEWISH POLICY CENTER$7,500
Individual grant recipient$5,325
PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES$5,000
OPHTHALMIC EDGE$5,000
ROHR CHABAD JEWISH STUDENT CENTER$5,000
TANGLEWOOD$5,000
SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICE FDN$5,000
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 (FY24–26, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $800 → 6%LUSTGARTEN FDN: $1k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FDN: $750 → 6%LUSTGARTEN FDN: $500 → 6%BELEV ECHAD: $1k → 17%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

ME
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
DC
GA
FL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$425k · 37 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2026, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
30

Total granted

$425k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

57%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25’26
HealthInternationalEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
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

  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    3× · 2023–2026 · $58k · revenue +31%
  • WP
    White Plains Hospital Medical Center
    4× · 2023–2026 · $40k · revenue +19%
  • TB
    THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND
    3× · 2023–2026 · $15k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • TO
    Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • TI
    Temple Israel Centre
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • TI
    THE ISRAEL ADVOCACY GROUP
    one grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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4
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
5
University of Judaism Foundation
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6
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
7
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
8
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
9
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
10
The Jerusalem Connection
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11
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
12
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

35 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. 35 of the 74 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
17/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FDN: $40,000 · OtherJUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FDNHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $40,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYTrustees of The University of Pennsylvania: $25,000 · OtherTrustees of The University of PennsylvaniaAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA: $20,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVAJEWISH POLICY CENTER: $19,000 · OtherJEWISH POLICY CENTERTEMPLE ISRAEL CENTER: $16,840 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL CENTERSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · OtherSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION INCTANGLEWOOD: $15,000 · OtherTANGLEWOOD+34 more: $74,234 · Other+34 moreCentral Fund of Israel: $57,500 · InternationalCentral Fund of Isr…JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA: $11,000 · InternationalJEWISH INSTITUTE FO…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $7,750 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRA…THE ISRAEL ADVOCACY GROUP: $5,000 · InternationalTHE ISRAEL ADVOCACY…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $4,000 · International+2 more: $3,000 · InternationalWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $40,000 · HealthWhite Plains Ho…PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $13,500 · HealthPEDIATRIC CANCE…OPHTHALMICEDGE INC: $10,000 · HealthOPHTHALMICEDGE …CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 · HealthCROHN'S & COLIT…+3 more: $2,650 · HealthNew York Historical Society: $27,000 · Arts & CultureNew York H…RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $15,219 · Arts & CultureRAYMOND F …METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3,400 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLIT…FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $1,800 · Arts & CultureTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND: $15,000 · EducationMILLBROOK SCHOOL: $2,825 · EducationTIKVA CORP: $1,000 · EducationThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $450 · EducationJEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES: $5,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $4,500 · PhilanthropyFRENCHMANS CREEK CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 · PhilanthropyMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,250 · Human ServicesBELEV ECHAD INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesHANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $800 · Human ServicesMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $3,000 · Public BenefitEMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC: $1,500 · Public Benefit
Other$265,074International$88,250Health$70,650Arts & Culture$47,419Education$20,275Philanthropy$14,000Human Services$5,050Public Benefit$4,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $57,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $27,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOPHTHALMICEDGE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $7,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ISRAEL ADVOCACY GROUP: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRENCHMANS CREEK CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILLBROOK SCHOOL: $2,825 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL AT BARUCH INC: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,025 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIKVA CORP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELEV ECHAD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillels of Georgia Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK INC: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $125 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds White Plains Hospital Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds OPHTHALMICEDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds THE ISRAEL ADVOCACY GROUP ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRENCHMANS CREEK CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds MILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL AT BARUCH 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.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY24.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert & Linda Friedman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert & Linda Friedman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Robert & Linda Friedman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Robert & Linda Friedman Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 74 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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