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The Emanuel J Friedman Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$363k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0170% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172024.

Philanthropy$362kArts & Culture$285kSocial Science$210kEnvironment$147kAnimals$139kEducation$92kCrime & Legal$85kHuman Services$85kReligion$71kOther$728k
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $277k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUMANS FOR HEALTHCARE$50,000
MILKEN INSTITUTE$46,900
HARDEEVILLE COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION FOUNDATION$45,000
GROW TORAH$40,000
NEW VENTURE FUND$25,000
ADL$25,000
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$15,000
BETH SHALOM B'NAI ZAKEN ETHIOPIAN HEBREW CONGREGATION$10,000
NEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION$10,000
JAZZ GENERATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CREATIVE COMMUNITY FOR PEACE$10,000
SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION$10,000
FRIENDS OF PANDO$10,000
CONGREGATION AHAVAS SHOLOM$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BELOVED BUILDERS: $5k → 12%FMW NONPROFIT SOLUTIONS: $15k → 11%DOLLAR FOR: $50k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
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CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
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DC
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TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$877k · 16 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
60

Total granted

$877k
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+26%

Still filing today

75%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureReligionEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $125k · revenue +57%
  • WI
    WILDAID INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $98k · revenue +5%
  • LG
    LION GLOBAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $63k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $210k · revenue +243%
  • TB
    TO BE HONEST INC DBA THE TEL AVIV INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • PJ
    PUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +84%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
2
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
3
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…

4
Better Food Foundation Inc

To promote dietary changes to build a healthy, equitable, humane, and environmentally-sustainable food system.

Food & Nutrition
5
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
6
Farm Forward Inc

To develop and implement strategies to promote more humane, sustainable, community-friendly food choices and advance animal agriculture with special attention to animal protection issues.

Animals
7
The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion
8
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
9
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…

10
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
11
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
12
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Media Impact Funders Inc and the most unlike its peers is Animals 24-7. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Community FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyAnimal Rescue and ShelterLocal Food System Organizat…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts CentersHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%24%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%12%<5yr14%20%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%13%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/77
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,488

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 93 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/68
Grantees still filing
42/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TO BE HONEST INC DBA THE TEL AVIV INSTITUTE — $100,000 · OtherTO BE HONEST INC DBA THE TEL AVIV INSTITUTEMILKEN INSTITUTE — $94,030 · OtherMILKEN INSTITUTEADAS ISRAEL HEBREW CONGREGATION — $50,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF PANDO INC — $48,500 · OtherHARDEEVILLE COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION FOUNDATION — $45,000 · OtherCONGREGATION AHAVAS SHOLOM — $38,000 · OtherPUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION — $75,000 · OtherPUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATIONDOLLAR FOR — $50,000 · Other+46 more — $468,200 · Other+46 moreHumans for Healthcare Inc — $150,000 · PhilanthropyHumans for Healthc…PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $125,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FO…JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $50,800 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FUNDERS NET…JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $15,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $21,000 · Philanthropy+4 moreTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLA…LION GLOBAL FOUNDATION — $62,500 · Arts & CultureLION GLOBAL FO…HALCYON HOUSE — $50,000 · Arts & CultureHALCYON HOUSEIMPACT GUILD INC — $43,000 · Arts & CultureIMPACT GUILD I…Sundance Institute — $18,000 · Arts & CultureSundance Insti…FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $16,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $210,000 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN …GROWTORAH INC — $67,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND — $25,000 · EnvironmentREDFORD CENTER INC — $15,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL COMPASSION — $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA ASSOCIATIONINC — $10,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — $10,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EnvironmentWILDAID INC — $98,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE MONTCLAIR TOWNSHIP — $25,000 · AnimalsCheetah Conservation Fund — $8,000 · AnimalsANIMALS 24-7 — $8,000 · AnimalsFARM ACTION — $50,000 · EducationR STREET INSTITUTE — $10,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationFOOD EDUCATION FUND INC — $10,000 · EducationCITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE — $5,000 · EducationThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $2,000 · Education
Other$968,730Philanthropy$361,800Arts & Culture$284,500Social Science$210,000Environment$147,000Animals$139,000Education$92,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $210,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHumans for Healthcare Inc — $150,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetWILDAID INC — $98,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGROWTORAH INC — $67,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetLION GLOBAL FOUNDATION — $62,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $50,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDOLLAR FOR — $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFARM ACTION — $50,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetHALCYON HOUSE — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetIMPACT GUILD INC — $43,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MONTCLAIR TOWNSHIP — $25,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetZICHRON TZVI ELIMELECH — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCaptain Planet Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSundance Institute — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFMW NONPROFIT SOLUTIONS — $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetREDFORD CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI MITZVAH INC — $13,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOCIAL COMPASSION — $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA ASSOCIATIONINC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetR STREET INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJAZZ GENERATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAZON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTORAHTELLING LAB SHUL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJOHN DAU FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLev Experience — $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD EDUCATION FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJEWBELONG INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCheetah Conservation Fund — $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANIMALS 24-7 — $8,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD AND ENVIRONMENT REPORTING NETWORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Friedman-French Foundation IncDC34.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Friedman-French Foundation Inc · The Friedman Family Charitable Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Upstart Bay Area · Covenant Foundation · The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc · Fjc · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Emanuel J Friedman Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • Adamah Inc10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Emanuel J Friedman Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Emanuel J Friedman Charitable Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 93 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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