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The Eric and Margaret Friedberg Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Eric and Margaret Friedberg Foundation

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.

$28k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$147kArts & Culture$60kYouth Development$39kPhilanthropy$28kPublic Benefit$22kCrime & Legal$17kCivil Rights$17kInternational$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$28,074
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY GIFT FUND$28,074
02The need
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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 (FY22–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%THE LEADER SHOP: $2k → 14%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$269k · 13 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against -16% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$269k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
-16%

Still filing today

62%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BARNARD COLLEGE
    4× · 2018–2023 · $50k · revenue +16%
  • SP
    STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $37k · revenue +51%
  • TC
    THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD
    3× · 2018–2020 · $34k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +125%
  • WM
    WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -16%
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.

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New York University

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.

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
New York Institute of Technology

New york institute of technology (nyit) offers various degree programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees, in more than 50 fields of study, including architecture and design; arts and sciences; (continued on…

Education
6
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
7
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
8
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
9
New York Academy of Art

The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…

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10
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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11
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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12
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chapin School Ltd; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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

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 27 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BARNARD COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGESTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC: $37,300 · EducationSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INCTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $34,000 · EducationTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTDTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $30,000 · EducationTHE SPENCE SCHOOLTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $20,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW …FIDELITY GIFT FUND: $28,074 · OtherFIDELITY GIFT FUNDCENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC INTEGRITY: $22,000 · OtherCENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLI…SOUTHAMPTON CULTURAL CENTER: $19,000 · OtherSOUTHAMPTON CULTURAL CENTERFEERICK CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $14,000 · OtherFEERICK CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICEEAST SIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL: $7,500 · OtherEAST SIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL+9 more: $17,975 · Other+9 moreMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $24,000 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN S…WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $12,500 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUS…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $16,500 · Civil RightsCAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $7,500 · InternationalUNITED AID FOUNDATION: $1,000 · InternationalHEART OF THE HAMPTONS LTD: $3,500 · Food & NutritionEASTERN DISTRICT ASSOCIATION: $3,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION INC: $400 · Community Improvement
Education$171,300Other$108,549Arts & Culture$36,500Civil Rights$16,500International$8,500Food & Nutrition$3,500Community Improvement$3,400

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 budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC: $37,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $34,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF THE HAMPTONS LTD: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTERN DISTRICT ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTHE LEADERSHOP: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAKE AGAWAM CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERSCHOOL ORCHESTRAS OF NEW YORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED AID FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION INC: $400 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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Eric and Margaret Friedberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eric and Margaret Friedberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s 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)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 27 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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