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The Freund Family Foundation

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.

$10k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2018
50%
First-time grantees FY2018
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100% of The Freund Family Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’17
2
’18
0
’19
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 2
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$241k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 50% of the organizations The Freund Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20182$9k50%
FY20172$6kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$20kReligion$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Friends of Shavei Yisrael Inc$8,60021%
Fifth Avenue Synagogue$3,6001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.

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About The Freund Family Foundation

How much does The Freund Family Foundation give?
The Freund Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 2 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does The Freund Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Education (58%), Religion (42%).
Who are The Freund Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: American Friends of Shavei Yisrael Inc ($9k), Fifth Avenue Synagogue ($4k).
Does The Freund Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Freund Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is The Freund Family Foundation based?
The Freund Family Foundation is based in CT.

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 4 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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