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The Fridolin 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $643k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $388k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $387,500 |
| FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY | $191,500 |
| FELLOWSHIPS AT AUSCHWITZ FOR THE STUDY OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS | $175,000 |
| HISTORICAL ROYAL PALACES | $175,000 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $175,000 |
| CRADLE OF AVIATION MUSEUM | $150,000 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $142,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $125,000 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| KIDS IN NEED OF DEFENSE (KIND) | $100,000 |
| AMERICANS FOR OXFORD | $80,000 |
| HASHOMER HATZAIR | $75,000 |
| BAY STREET THEATRE | $65,000 |
| SOUTH FORK NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM | $65,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Fridolin Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 71% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PUPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +45%
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC3× · 2022–2024 · $700k · revenue +63%
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI4× · 2018–2024 · $533k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- NYNew York Universitygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +59%
- NYNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2018 · $182k
- BABEZALEL ACEDEMY OF ARTS & DESIGN JERUSALEMone grant, 2018 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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.
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,…
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…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Dream Big Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
82 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 82 of the 136 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIPS AT AUSCHWITZ FOR THE STUDY OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ROYAL PALACES INC ↗
- Who funds Committee for Governor George E Pataki Leadership and Leaning Center ↗
- Who funds ALL ABOUT CATS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ZAMIR CHORAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HASHOMER HATZAIR ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHET EILON INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FORK NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FCANCER ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds KIND INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Support Center for Child Advocates ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEMORY PROJECT PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Yaffa Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Open Society Institute · Andrew Sabin Family Foundation · The Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson Foundation · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Ag Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Chubb Charitable 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 Fridolin 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.
- Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Silvermine Guild of Artists Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.
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