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The Frank & Fred Friedman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$260k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232025.

Education$331kReligion$141kArts & Culture$53kHuman Services$51kHealth$24kPhilanthropy$11kHousing & Shelter$10kRecreation & Sports$600Other$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Frostig Center$55,000
Bridges Center for Learning$50,000
NE Miles Jewish Day School$30,500
Temple Emanu El$27,500
Alabama Holocaust Education Center$20,000
Individual grant recipient$13,700
Chabad of Alabama$13,280
Collat Jewish Family Services$10,050
YWCA$9,000
Union for Reform Judaism$8,000
Temple Beth-El$6,300
Special Needs Acquatic Program$3,600
Marcus Atlanta Community Center$3,000
Levite jewish Community Center$2,500
Mitchell's Place$2,000
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 (FY23–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Urban Ministry: $200 → 16%Collat Jewish Family Services: $10k → 16%Levite jewish Community Center: $5k → 16%Collat Jewish Family Services: $3k → 16%Collat Jewish Family Services: $3k → 16%Levite jewish Community Center: $3k → 16%Heart Gallery of Alabama: $3k → 16%Heart Gallery of Alabama: $1k → 16%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

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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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$574k · 22 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
13

Total granted

$574k
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
0%

Still filing today

36%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationScience & TechReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • MF
    MARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $97k · revenue +13%
  • NE
    N E MILES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $73k · revenue +52%
  • AH
    ALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • HT
    Heschel Temple and Day School
    one grant, 2023 · $58k
  • H
    Hadassah
    one grant, 2023 · $22k
  • TE
    TEMPLE ETZ CHAIM
    one grant, 2024 · $13k

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
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
2
Jewish Family Service

Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…

3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
Birmingham Jewish Foundation Inc

The birmingham jewish foundation is dedicated to nurturing and promoting jewish life in birmingham, nationally, in israel and throughout the world; is involved in building a better birmingham through alliances and partnerships with other…

5
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
6
Atlanta Jewish Academy Inc

Atlanta jewish academy is a college preparatory, co-educational, preschool-12th grade, independent jewish day school, guided by modern orthodox values and principles. we embody the ideals of community, tradition, individual development and…

Education
7
Minkoff Center for Jewish Genetics

To raise awareness in the greater phoenix jewish community regarding jewish genetic diseases and to educate about tragic disorders. the center provides affordable carrier testing so that no jewish family in our community will need to…

Health
8
Jewish Family Service of Greater New Hav

Jewish family service of greater new haven (jfsgnh) supports and strengthens individual, family, and community life by providing a wide range of social services. we welcome people of all ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations,…

Human Services
9
Jewish Home Lifecare Manhattan

Jewish home lifecare (d/b/a the new jewish home, manhattan), is a not-for-profit organization committed to transforming eldercare for new yorkers so they can live meaningful lives in the place they call home.

Health
10
Jewish Family Service of Northeastern Pennsylvania

Jewish family service is a human service organization which reflects the jewish tradition of caring and compassion for all people in need. through professional counseling, advocacy and educational programming, our services seek to enhance…

Human Services
11
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
12
Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor

To nurture the development of knowledgeable, caring and committed Jewish children in a dynamic learning environment. Through exceptional general and Judaic studies and Hebrew language immersion, students create a meaningful and joyous…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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 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. 17 of the 46 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
7/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Bridges Center for Learning — $91,000 · OtherBridges Center for LearningHeschel Temple and Day School — $58,000 · OtherHeschel Temple and Day SchoolCHABAD OF ALABAMA — $45,010 · OtherCHABAD OF ALABAMAIndividual grant recipient — $42,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTemple Emanu El — $32,680 · OtherTemple Emanu ElIndividual grant recipient — $31,236 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHadassah — $22,000 · OtherUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM — $19,600 · OtherYWCA — $18,000 · Other+21 more — $91,033 · Other+21 moreMARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY — $97,000 · EducationMARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF ED…N E MILES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $73,050 · EducationN E MILES JEWISH DAY SCHOO…ALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER — $50,000 · ReligionCOLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BIRMINGHAM — $15,050 · Human ServicesLEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $7,500 · Human ServicesHEART GALLERY OF ALABAMA INC — $3,750 · Human Services+1 more — $200 · Human ServicesMITCHELL'S PLACE INC — $17,400 · Health+5 more — $1,250 · HealthThe Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research — $1,000 · Science & TechWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA — $600 · PhilanthropyBIRMINGHAM JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $72 · Philanthropy
Other$450,559Education$170,050Religion$50,000Human Services$26,500Health$18,650Science & Tech$1,000Philanthropy$672

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 budgetMARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY — $97,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetN E MILES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $73,050 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER — $50,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetMITCHELL'S PLACE INC — $17,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BIRMINGHAM — $15,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $10,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetLEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEART GALLERY OF ALABAMA INC — $3,750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATEAM MINISTRIES — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRMINGHAM JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $72 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds MARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY
  • Who funds N E MILES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
  • Who funds ALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER
  • Who funds MITCHELL'S PLACE INC
  • Who funds COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BIRMINGHAM
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
  • Who funds LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
  • Who funds HEART GALLERY OF ALABAMA INC
  • Who funds The Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research
  • Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds ATEAM MINISTRIES

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.

Lisa and Alan Engel FoundationAL26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Ronne & Donald Hess Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Abroms Charitable Foundation Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Harold W Ripps Charitable Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust

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 Frank & Fred Friedman Family Foundation 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.

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no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%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 · 0–15%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Frank & Fred Friedman Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Frank & Fred Friedman Family Foundation 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 46 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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