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The Frieder Foundation at a glance

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The Frieder 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.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$135kEducation$112kArts & Culture$66kEnvironment$30kYouth Development$6kHealth$4kCrime & Legal$1k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
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States reached
$190k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $8k → 7%ST ROSE BELL TOWER RESTORATION PROJ: $10k → 13%WVIA FM PUBLIC MEDIA: $10k → 15%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $8k → 7%COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY: $5k → 13%WVIA FM PUBLIC MEDIA: $10k → 15%ST ROSE BELL TOWER RESTORATION PROJ: $6k → 13%WVIA FM PULBIC MEDIA: $5k → 15%COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY: $5k → 13%WVIA FM PULBIC MEDIA: $5k → 15%ST ROSE BELL TOWER RESTORATION PROJ: $5k → 13%WVIA FM PULBIC MEDIA: $5k → 15%COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY: $5k → 13%ST ROSE BELL TOWER RESTORATION PROJ: $5k → 13%LACKAWANNA PRO BONO INC: $1k → 13%WAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE: $20k → 13%WAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE: $20k → 13%WAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE: $20k → 13%WAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE: $20k → 13%WAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 13%NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA COUNCIL B: $5k → 13%NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA COUNCIL B: $1k → 13%GEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL OF ME: $50k → 13%GEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL OF ME: $50k → 13%MARYWOOD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 13%SCRANTON PRIMARY CARE CENTER: $1k → 13%LACKAWANNA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1k → 13%ALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%THE UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON: $6k → 13%EVERHART MUSEUM: $5k → 13%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$317k · 8 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$317k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+17%

Still filing today

50%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHealthCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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

  • WC
    WAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $90k · revenue +28%
  • WI
    WRC INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $45k · revenue +70%
  • CC
    COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +369%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Scranton
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +17%
  • EM
    EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +8%
  • MU
    Marywood University
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +15%
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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Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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2
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
3
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
4
The Clearwater Conservancy of Central Pennsylvania Inc

To conserve and restore the natural resources through land conservation, water resources stewardship and environmental outreach across central pennsylvania.

Environment
5
Cedar Crest College

Cedar crest college is a liberal arts college primarily for women dedicated to the education of the next generation of leaders. the college prepares students for life in a global community by educating the whole student at all stages of…

Education
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
8
Westmoreland Conservancy

The westmoreland conservancy is an accredited non-profit land trust located in murrysville about 20 miles east of pittsburgh in westmoreland county. the organization was founded in 1991, and has always been run by community volunteers. the…

Environment
9
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

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10
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
11
Wrc Senior Services

Wrc senior services provides choices for generations. built on a not-for-profit foundation of caring, the organization offers residential and personal care, home and community-based services, skilled and rehabilitative health care.

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12
Lackawanna Valley Conservancy

The conservancy is organized to protect, preserve and acquire natural resources in the lackawanna valley for the benefit of the general public.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waverly Community House Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Nature Conservancy. 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

10 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. 10 of the 16 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL OF ME: $100,000 · OtherGEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL OF MEWRC INC: $45,000 · OtherWRC INCST ROSE BELL TOWER RESTORATION PROJ: $26,000 · OtherST ROSE BELL TOWER RESTORATION PROJWVIA FM PUBLIC MEDIA: $20,000 · OtherWVIA FM PUBLIC MEDIATHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $15,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYWVIA FM PULBIC MEDIA: $15,000 · OtherWVIA FM PULBIC MEDIA+3 more: $8,000 · OtherWAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $90,000 · Community ImprovementWAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE INCCOUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY: $15,000 · EnvironmentUniversity of Scranton: $6,000 · EducationMarywood University: $5,000 · EducationEVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART: $5,000 · Arts & CultureALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthLACKAWANNA PRO BONO INC: $1,250 · Crime & Legal
Other$229,000Community Improvement$90,000Environment$15,000Education$11,000Arts & Culture$5,000Health$2,500Crime & Legal$1,250

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $90,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetWRC INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of Scranton: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMarywood University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION: $2,500 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.

Scranton Area Foundat…Robert y Moffat Chari…The Ross Family Found…Moses Taylor Foundati…Overlook Estate Found…Eureka FoundationWalter L Schautz Foun…Rosenberg Charitable …Robert H Spitz Founda…The Hawk Family Found…The Honesdale Nationa…The Harry and Jeanett…
Scranton Area Foundation IncPA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Robert y Moffat Charitable Trust · The Ross Family Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Overlook Estate Foundation · Eureka Foundation · Walter L Schautz Foundation · Rosenberg Charitable Foundation · Robert H Spitz Foundation · The Hawk Family Foundation · The Honesdale National Bank Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc

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 Frieder Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frieder Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 16 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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