· Private foundation
Ronald and Susan 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SNOW SHOE FIRE COMPANY | $7,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +140% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SSSNOW SHOE FIRE COMPANY2× · 2019–2022 · $22k · revenue +93%
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2017–2019 · $18k
- HTHOUSING TRANSITIONS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $9k · revenue +140%
Funded once
- WTWALKER TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INCone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +22%
- MTMILES TOWNSHIP FIRE COMPANYone grant, 2019 · $15k
- ODON DRUGS Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +131%
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.
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.
Volunteer Fire Dept
To provide protection and emergency medical services to residents of north wales borough, lower gwynedd township, upper gwynedd township and surrounding communities.
Provided Fire & Rescue Services to Alum Bank, PA and surrounding area.
Fire protection services
Provide Fire Prevention & Protection Services
Provides fire protection and ambulance service
To provide fire protection and rescue services to the general public in the community.
To fight fires and engage in public safety work including Susquehanna River boaters protection, automobile accident fires and other rescue activities in Dauphin Borough, Middle Paxton Twp and surrounding Townships in PA
Provides volunteer fire protection and rescue services to the seelyville, pa and surrounding area.
The mission of the lancaster township fire department is to serve the community by protecting lives,property and the environment in a safe, efficient and professional manner. the fire department is responsible for extinguishing fires, fire…
Volunteer fire & rescue
Emergency firefighting and rescue services for the general public benefit in troutman community and the barringer and fallstown townships.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SNOW SHOE FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds WALKER TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds MILES TOWNSHIP FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ON DRUGS Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSING TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Boalsburg Fire Company Inc ↗
- Who funds STRAWBERRY FIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE STATE COLLEGE AREA 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ronald and Susan Friedman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ronald and Susan Friedman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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