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Sw Friedman Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,600
Median grant
4
States reached
$62k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION NEVEI KODESH$4,140
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS$3,600
BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$3,600
CONGREGATION AHAVATH SHOLOM$3,540
TEMPLE BAT YAHM$3,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $50 → 11%BOULDER COUNTY LATINA LEAGUE: $1k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 12%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 12%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 12%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

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

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$67k · 14 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
43

Total granted

$67k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+40%

Still filing today

36%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesReligionHealthAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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

  • TB
    THE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    2× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +26%
  • AA
    ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal
    2× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +107%
  • IF
    IMAGINATION FORT WORTH
    3× · 2017–2020 · $1k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +98%
  • HI
    HIAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +122%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +81%
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
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
2
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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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
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
5
Repair the World

Repair the world mobilizes jews and their communities to take action to pursue a more just world, igniting a lifelong commitment to service. we believe service in support of social change is vital to a flourishing jewish community and an…

Community Improvement
6
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
7
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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8
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc

Since 1914, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) has acted on behalf of North America's Jewish communities and others to fulfill the principle that "kol Yisrael arevim zeh l'zeh" - all Jews are responsible for one…

International
9
Young Judaea Global Inc

Young judaea is a diverse community that educates and empowers jewish youth to deeply engage with israel and to lead positive change for the jewish people, israel and the world.

Education
10
Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc

Jewish national fund gives all generations of jews a unique voice in building a prosperous future for the land of israel and its people.

International
11
United Israel Appeal Inc

The principal function of uia is to administer and supervise the funds allocated for philanthropic purposes related to immigration and absorption of humanitarian migrants to israel and jewish identity programs in israel and the former…

International
12
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. 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

37 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. 37 of the 62 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
27/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION AHAVATH SHOLOM: $18,040 · OtherCONGREGATION AHAVATH SHOLOMREFORM TEMPLE OF CONEJO VALLEY: $15,000 · OtherREFORM TEMPLE OF CONEJO VALLEYTEMPLE BAT YAHM: $14,750 · OtherTEMPLE BAT YAHMCONGREGATION NEVEI KODESH: $7,640 · OtherCONGREGATION NEVEI KODESHTEMPLE BETH EL: $4,500 · OtherTEMPLE BETH ELIndividual grant recipient: $4,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,600 · Other+31 more: $13,660 · Other+31 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES U…NEW ISRAEL FUND: $7,200 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUNDHIAS INC: $5,000 · InternationalHIAS INCInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Commi…Just Vision Inc: $1,800 · InternationalJust Vision IncPYE GLOBAL: $1,080 · International+3 more: $610 · InternationalTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,880 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesBOULDER COUNTY LATINA LEAGUE INC: $1,000 · Human Services+2 more: $100 · Human ServicesALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal: $2,600 · ReligionJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $1,800 · ReligionMOVING TRADITIONS: $540 · ReligionYesod Foundation: $180 · ReligionPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $3,600 · PhilanthropyUnderdogs: $3,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $250 · AnimalsIMAGINATION FORT WORTH: $1,300 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $975 · Arts & Culture
Other$81,590International$30,690Human Services$5,980Religion$5,120Philanthropy$3,600Animals$3,250Arts & Culture$2,275

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 budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $7,200 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 budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $360 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 budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $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
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.

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.

ImpactassetsincCommunity Foundation …Rose Community Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home