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The Fried Foundation Inc

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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$993k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$5.4MPhilanthropy$814kHealth$567kPublic Safety & Disaster$165kFood & Nutrition$43kAnimals$39kCrime & Legal$18kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $137k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $430k
  • $250k+1 grant · $993k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$992,500
TABOR ACADEMY$200,000
THE CENTURION FOUNDATION$180,000
NDH FOUNDATION$50,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$30,000
JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC$30,000
THE JOAN AND SANFORD I WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR DISORDERS OF THE CORPUS CALLOSUM$15,000
AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES$12,000
THE CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA$7,500
NY STATE TROOPER FOUNDATION$7,500
COMMUNITY MAYORS FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN$5,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TABOR ACADEMY: $300k → 8%NDH FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%NY STATE TROOPER FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $993k → 16%JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES: $50k → 17%FEEDING AMERICA: $25k → 14%TABOR ACADEMY: $225k → 8%NDH FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%NY STATE TROOPER FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $983k → 16%JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 15%TABOR ACADEMY: $200k → 8%NDH FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%NY STATE TROOPER FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $465k → 16%JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%TABOR ACADEMY: $200k → 8%NDH FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $462k → 16%TABOR ACADEMY: $190k → 8%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $380k → 16%TABOR ACADEMY: $175k → 8%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $231k → 16%TABOR ACADEMY: $80k → 8%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $160k → 16%THE CENTURION FOUNDATION: $180k → 17%TABOR ACADEMY: $35k → 8%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $30k → 16%THE CENTURION FOUNDATION: $120k → 17%TABOR ACADEMY: $30k → 8%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $26k → 16%THE CENTURION FOUNDATION: $120k → 17%THE CENTURION FOUNDATION: $110k → 17%THE CENTURION FOUNDATION: $105k → 17%THE CENTURION FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%THE CENTURION FOUNDATION: $36k → 17%THE CENTURION FOUNDATION: $33k → 17%CANCER RESEARCH & TREATMENT: $25k → 17%CANCER RESEARCH & TREATMENT: $25k → 17%CANCER RESEARCH & TREATMENT: $25k → 17%THE JOAN AND SANFORD I WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $25k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $50k → 17%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
TN
DC
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.1M · 16 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
17

Total granted

$7.1M
$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+41%

Still filing today

75%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthAnimalsCrime & LegalFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • Cornell University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +59%
  • TA
    TABOR ACADEMY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +79%
  • CF
    Centurion Foundation Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $814k · revenue +13% · 35% of their budget

Funded once

  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +9%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +167%
  • HC
    HOLTZ CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
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
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Signal 30 Troopers Benefit Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cinq-Mars Media. 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

24 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. 24 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
22/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cornell University: $3,728,945 · EducationCornell UniversityTABOR ACADEMY: $1,435,000 · EducationTABOR ACADEMY+5 more: $241,950 · EducationCenturion Foundation Inc: $813,500 · PhilanthropyCenturion Fo…NDH Foundation: $200,000 · HealthJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 · HealthNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR DISORDERS OF THE CORPUS CALLOSUM: $95,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $50,000 · HealthIndividual grant recipient: $170,000 · OtherNY STATE TROOPER FOUNDATION: $153,500 · OtherTHE JOAN AND SANFORD I WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $25,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY MAYORS FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN: $19,500 · Other+12 more: $41,400 · OtherAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $62,000 · ReligionFeeding America: $35,000 · Food & NutritionNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $7,500 · Food & NutritionTRRAC INC: $25,500 · AnimalsRERUN INC: $8,000 · AnimalsOld Friends Inc: $5,000 · Animals
Education$5,405,895Philanthropy$813,500Health$450,000Other$409,400Religion$62,000Food & Nutrition$42,500Animals$38,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $3,728,945 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTABOR ACADEMY: $1,435,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCenturion Foundation Inc: $813,500 over 9y, 35% of budgetNDH Foundation: $200,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $155,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR DISORDERS OF THE CORPUS CALLOSUM: $95,000 over 9y, 7.6% of budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $74,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $62,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRRAC INC: $25,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY C LEE INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC SCIENCE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetRERUN INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOld Friends Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOLICE OFFICER ASSISTANCE TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetASIAN JADE SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCINQ-MARS MEDIA: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNY Prospects Baseball Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSIGNAL 30 TROOPERS BENEFIT FUND INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds TABOR ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Centurion Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds NDH Foundation ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR DISORDERS OF THE CORPUS CALLOSUM ↗
  • Who funds CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds TRRAC INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds HENRY C LEE INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC SCIENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds RERUN INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds Old Friends Inc ↗
  • Who funds Sawyer Automotive Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds POLICE OFFICER ASSISTANCE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN JADE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds CINQ-MARS MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds NY Prospects Baseball Inc ↗
  • Who funds SIGNAL 30 TROOPERS BENEFIT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PACE UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA6.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Fried Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fried Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jackson Health Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Henry C Lee Institute of Forensic Science Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
05Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to The Fried Foundation Inc 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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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