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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 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, FY2017 to 2024.

Social Science$406kHealth$378kArts & Culture$270kReligion$234kAnimals$154kEnvironment$109kPhilanthropy$107kCommunity Improvement$93kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
FRIENDS OF PANDO$10,000
CONGREGATION AHAVAS SHOLOM$10,000
NEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION$10,000
JAZZ GENERATION$10,000
CREATIVE COMMUNITY FOR PEACE$10,000
SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its 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
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
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
SC
DC
GA
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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+25%

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
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Media Impact Funders Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 93 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/68
Grantees still filing
43/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE 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 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL COMPASSION: $10,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA ASSOCIATIONINC: $10,000 · EnvironmentWILDAID INC: $98,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE MONTCLAIR TOWNSHIP: $25,000 · AnimalsANIMALS 24-7: $8,000 · AnimalsCheetah Conservation Fund: $8,000 · AnimalsFARM ACTION: $50,000 · EducationFOOD EDUCATION FUND INC: $10,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationR STREET INSTITUTE: $10,000 · EducationThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute: $5,000 · EducationCITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE: $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 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 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 budgetFARM ACTION: $50,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetDOLLAR FOR: $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHALCYON HOUSE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetIMPACT GUILD INC: $43,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MONTCLAIR TOWNSHIP: $25,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetFOOTSTEPS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREDFORD CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHAI MITZVAH INC: $13,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJOHN DAU FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTORAHTELLING LAB SHUL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLev Experience: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAZON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD EDUCATION FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL COMPASSION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ GENERATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA ASSOCIATIONINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetR STREET INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWBELONG INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANIMALS 24-7: $8,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetCheetah Conservation Fund: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOREVER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTHUR MILLER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Friedman-French Found…The Friedman Family C…Jewish Communal FundJewish Community Fede…The Shimon Ben Joseph…Jewish Community Foun…Upstart Bay AreaCovenant FoundationThe Nathan Cummings F…FjcThe Morningstar Phila…The Arthur M Blank Fa…
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

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 Emanuel J Friedman Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Emanuel J Friedman Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Adamah Inc: 10% 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, 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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 93 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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