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The Bayard & Cornelia Friedman Fund at a glance

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The Bayard & Cornelia Friedman Fund

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.

$14k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$38kHuman Services$32kEnvironment$21kFood & Nutrition$15kArts & Culture$11kPhilanthropy$5kCommunity Improvement$5kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$339k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT$5,000
REGIONAL FOOD BANK$4,500
ONE DROP OF KINDNESS FOUNDATION$4,000
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 (FY18–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PEOPLE'S PLACE: $10k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $800 → 14%PEOPLE'S PLACE: $5k → 10%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.
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$103k · 9 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
16

Total granted

$103k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+34%

Still filing today

67%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • CO
    CIRCLE OF FRIENDS FOR THE DYING INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +21%
  • PP
    PEOPLE'S PLACE II INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $15k · revenue +1%
  • FO
    FAMILY OF WOODSTOCK INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • TW
    The William Alanson White Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +218%
  • US
    UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • BA
    BAYLOR ALL SAINTS HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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
Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery

See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…

Health
2
The Connecticut Women's Consortium Inc

The mission of the connecticut women's consortium is to ensure that the behavioral health system responds to the needs of women and the people and organization that affect them.

Human Services
3
Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers

Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers creates and sustains healthy rural communities by providing accessible, high quality medical, dental and behavioral health care for all, while recognizing and addressing other factors that influence…

Health
4
Craig and Frances Lindner Center of Hope

Lindner center of hope (lcoh) is a mental health center staffed by a diverse team, united in the philosophy that by working together, we can best offer hope for people living with mental illness. the patients and their families are at the…

Health
5
Cornerstone Montgomery

Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.

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6
2020 Mom Policy Center for Maternal

The policy center is improving maternal mental health outcomes through closing gaps in care delivery, including improving detection and access to evidence-based and informed clinical and community-based care. the policy center has been…

Health
7
The New York Gracie Square Hospital Inc

Our mission is to provide the highest-quality, state-of-the-art mental health and chemical dependency treatment in a warm, healing environment. our caring, compassionate team prepares our patients to return to their families and…

Health
8
Abby Kelley Foster House Inc

To provide shelter and affordable housing, as well as advocacy and support services, to homeless, battered and low-income women, with or without children. abby's house empowers the women we serve to lead self-directed lives filled with…

Housing & Shelter
9
Virtua Medical Group Pa

The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…

Health
10
Preferred Behavioral Health of Nj Inc

To deliver quality and compassionate behavioral health services to individuals and families all the time through a trauma informed care philosophy and approach.

Health
11
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
12
Women's Center of Montgomery County

The women's center of montgomery county is a volunteer, community organization with a primary focus on freedom from domestic violence and other forms of abuse. our programs, policies and procedures reflect our strong commitment to…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Center of Tarrant County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. 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

17 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. 17 of the 28 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STREAMS VALLEYS INC: $21,000 · OtherSTREAMS VALLEYS INCTarrant Area Food Bank: $9,000 · OtherTarrant Area Food BankIndividual grant recipient: $9,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT: $5,000 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENTThe William Alanson White Institute: $5,000 · OtherThe William Alanson White InstituteONE DROP OF KINDNESS FOUNDATION: $4,000 · OtherONE DROP OF KINDNESS FOUNDATION+10 more: $10,900 · Other+10 moreCIRCLE OF FRIENDS FOR THE DYING INC: $25,000 · HealthCIRCLE OF FRIENDS FOR THE DYING IN…FAMILY OF WOODSTOCK INC: $13,333 · HealthFAMILY OF WOODSTOCK INCThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,725 · Health+2 more: $2,000 · HealthPEOPLE'S PLACE II INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE'S PLAC…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $800 · Human ServicesPERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $4,500 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY: $1,000 · Food & NutritionSalesmanship Club of Dallas: $1,000 · Community ImprovementChild Study Center: $500 · Education
Other$63,900Health$42,058Human Services$15,800Arts & Culture$8,000Food & Nutrition$5,500Community Improvement$1,000Education$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCIRCLE OF FRIENDS FOR THE DYING INC: $25,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetPEOPLE'S PLACE II INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY OF WOODSTOCK INC: $13,333 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe William Alanson White Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,725 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalesmanship Club of Dallas: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

Mary Potishman Lard T…Leo Potishman Foundat…Thomas M Helen McKee …Textron Charitable Tr…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co TrusteeTX15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 The Bayard & Cornelia Friedman Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bayard & Cornelia Friedman Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 51%
  • People's Place Ii Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report 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.
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How do I get to The Bayard & Cornelia Friedman Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Bayard & Cornelia Friedman Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 28 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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