New York · Private foundation
Ruth & Ralph Friedman 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.
- $25k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Ruth & Ralph Friedman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 15 | $25k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $24k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $23k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $28k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $20k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $19k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adirondack Land Trust Inc | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Adirondack Council Inc | $34,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Adirondack Medical Center | $18,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks | $16,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Paul Smiths College | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation | $2,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Inc | $2,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Adirondack Experience Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $500 | 2 | 0% |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $400 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adirondack Land Trust Inc | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Adirondack Council Inc | $34,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Adirondack Medical Center | $18,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks | $16,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Paul Smiths College | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation | $2,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Inc | $2,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Adirondack Experience Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $500 | 2 | 0% |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $400 | 2 | 0% |
| The Academy of American Poets Inc | $300 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ruth & Ralph Friedman 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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Ruth & Ralph Friedman Foundation
- How much does Ruth & Ralph Friedman Foundation give?
- Ruth & Ralph Friedman Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $25,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Ruth & Ralph Friedman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (60%), Arts & Culture (13%), Health (13%).
- Who are Ruth & Ralph Friedman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Adirondack Land Trust Inc ($45k), The Adirondack Council Inc ($34k), Adirondack Medical Center ($18k).
- Does Ruth & Ralph Friedman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ruth & Ralph Friedman 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 Ruth & Ralph Friedman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Ruth & Ralph Friedman Foundation based?
- Ruth & Ralph Friedman Foundation is based in NY.
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