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Sw Friedman Foundation Inc

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.

$18k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,600
Largest grant, FY2025
$4,140
Organizations funded a year
4 to 33
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$62k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Sw Friedman Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving4$15k25%
FY20244$10k25%
FY20236$17k50%
FY20226$11k33%
FY20217$9k71%
FY20206$9k33%
FY201817$7k65%
FY201733$43kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$66kInternational$33kHuman Services$7kArts & Culture$4kPhilanthropy$4kAnimals$3kEnvironment$3kYouth Development$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
MD
DC
HI
OK
LA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Congregation Ahavath Sholom$18,0403n/a
Reform Temple of Conejo Valley$15,0003n/a
Temple Bat Yahm$14,7506n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$10,00010%
Congregation Nevei Kodesh$7,6402n/a
Hias Inc$5,00010%
International Rescue Committee INC$5,00010%
Temple Beth El$4,5001n/a
Boulder Jewish Community Foundation$3,6001n/a
Underdogs$3,0001n/a
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All grantees of Sw Friedman Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Congregation Ahavath Sholom$18,0403n/a
Reform Temple of Conejo Valley$15,0003n/a
Temple Bat Yahm$14,7506n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$10,00010%
Congregation Nevei Kodesh$7,6402n/a
Hias Inc$5,00010%
International Rescue Committee INC$5,00010%
Temple Beth El$4,5001n/a
Boulder Jewish Community Foundation$3,6001n/a
Underdogs$3,0001n/a
The Boulder Jewish Community Center$2,88020%
ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal$2,60020%
Owens Valley Indian Water Commission$2,5001n/a
Just Vision Inc$1,80010%
Beadforlife$1,8001n/a
J Street Education Fund Inc$1,80010%
Wilshire Boulevard Temple$1,5501n/a
Imagination Fort Worth$1,30030%
Pye Global$1,08010%
Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc$1,00010%
Emergency Family Assistance Association$1,0001n/a
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger$1,00010%
Boulder County Latina League Inc$1,0001n/a
The National World War II Museum Inc$97530%
Moving Traditions$54010%
LifeStream Blood Bank$50010%
Boulder Shelter for the Homeless Inc$50010%
The Garrison Institute$50010%
K9s for Warriors Inc$25010%
Birthright Israel Foundation$20010%
Yesod Foundation$1801n/a
Temple Beth Zion$1502n/a
Jbi International Inc$15020%
Paralyzed Veterans of America$10010%
Prager University Foundation$10010%
Kids Wish Network Inc$5010%
Feed the Children Inc$5010%
Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc$5010%
Smile Train Inc$5010%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard & Port Hueneme$5010%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$4010%
Disabled American Veterans$2010%

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sw Friedman Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Boulder Jewish Community Center: $2,880 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal: $2,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJust Vision Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJ Street Education Fund Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetImagination Fort Worth: $1,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPye Global: $1,080 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Family Service of Colorado Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe National World War II Museum Inc: $975 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMoving Traditions: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifeStream Blood Bank: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoulder Shelter for the Homeless Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Garrison Institute: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetK9s for Warriors Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJbi International Inc: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetParalyzed Veterans of America: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrager University Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKids Wish Network Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeed the Children Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard & Port Hueneme: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $40 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $20 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 28.

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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.

ImpactassetsincMD14.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Community Foundation Boulder County · Rose Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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About Sw Friedman Foundation Inc

How much does Sw Friedman Foundation Inc give?
Sw Friedman Foundation Inc reported 5 grants totaling $18,380 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Sw Friedman Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (50%), International (25%), Human Services (5%).
Who are Sw Friedman Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Congregation Ahavath Sholom ($18k), Reform Temple of Conejo Valley ($15k), Temple Bat Yahm ($15k).
Does Sw Friedman Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sw Friedman Foundation Inc 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 Sw Friedman Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Impactassetsinc, Community Foundation Boulder County, Rose Community Foundation.
Where is Sw Friedman Foundation Inc based?
Sw Friedman Foundation Inc is based in CO.

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 62 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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