· Private foundation
The Barbara Freid Gottesman Charitable 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $21,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $10,000 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $10,000 |
| HAPPINESS IS CAMPING | $7,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $7,500 |
| CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| DOROT | $5,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| FRESH AIR FUND | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS | $5,000 |
| ASPCA | $3,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 14 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 FY2025, 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +98%- OSOPERATION SMILE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +60%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- LCLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +13%
- HHADASSAHone grant, 2024 · $5k
- CSCOLUMBIA SCHOOL OF NURSINGone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
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.…
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 45 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds DOROT INC ↗
- Who funds JBI INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Paper Mill Playhouse ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Barbara Freid Gottesman Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barbara Freid Gottesman Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Paper Mill Playhouse: 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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