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The Friedman Family 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.

$35k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Food & Nutrition$956kPhilanthropy$947kReligion$912kArts & Culture$629kSocial Science$503kEnvironment$345kInternational$281kAnimals$246kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$553k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF SAN DIEGO$20,000
FRIENDS OF CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF SAN DIEGO$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
OLAMI ARIZONA INC$5,000
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 (FY17–20, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING: $10k → 14%UNCHAINED AT LAST: $11k → 10%KNOCK KNOCK GIVE A SOCK: $3k → 16%COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING: $10k → 14%UNCHAINED AT LAST: $5k → 10%BRIDGES FROM SCHOOL TO WORK: $30k → 14%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 30 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +186% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
89

Total granted

$2.5M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+186%
+41%

Still filing today

57%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationReligionFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • MASS DESIGN GROUP LTD
    2× · 2018–2019 · $265k · revenue +80%
  • GI
    GROWTORAH INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $105k · revenue +371% · 29% of their budget
  • JF
    JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK
    6× · 2017–2022 · $85k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • FF
    FARM FORWARD
    one grant, 2017 · $789k
  • TM
    THE MILKEN INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +387%
  • TA
    TALMUDICAL ACADEMY OF BALTIMORE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $113k

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
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
2
Jewish Film Institute

The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…

Arts & Culture
3
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
4
Better Food Foundation Inc

To promote dietary changes to build a healthy, equitable, humane, and environmentally-sustainable food system.

Food & Nutrition
5
The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion
6
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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7
Farm Forward Inc

To develop and implement strategies to promote more humane, sustainable, community-friendly food choices and advance animal agriculture with special attention to animal protection issues.

Animals
8
Israel 21c

Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.

Education
9
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
10
Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.

Environment
11
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
12
Jewish Vegan Life Inc

Jewish vegan life is a nonprofit organization committed to catalyzing a global food revolution. our mission is to inspire people to connect the worlds of jewish tradition and plant-based living, empowering them to live their best jewish…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Media Impact Funders Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heart of a Nation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community FederationsLand Conservation Organizat…Wildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Public University Foundatio…Cancer Support OrganizationsCommunity Arts OrganizationsSmall Business Development …Government Accountability R…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Animal Rescue and AdoptionUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%36%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%42%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/88
the rest of the field
13%
240,393/1,819,477

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.

04the grantee network

80 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. 80 of the 126 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/80
Grantees still filing
60/80
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FARM FORWARD — $789,250 · OtherFARM FORWARDCOMMUNITY PARTNERS (PROSOCIAL FOUNDATION) — $631,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS (PROSOCIAL FOUNDATION)THE MILKEN INSTITUTE — $500,000 · OtherTHE MILKEN INSTITUTEHAZON INC — $139,500 · Other+78 more — $1,393,200 · Other+78 moreINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $431,810 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONA…THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COL…Sundance Institute — $34,200 · Arts & CultureSundance Ins…MEDIA IMPACT FUNDERS INC — $22,500 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $42,500 · Arts & Culture+5 moreJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $85,000 · PhilanthropyRose Community Foundation — $60,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING BACK FUND — $42,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC — $30,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACTASSETSINC — $24,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $20,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $20,000 · PhilanthropyMASS DESIGN GROUP LTD — $265,000 · InternationalMORASHA OLAMI INC — $10,000 · International+2 more — $5,500 · InternationalGROWTORAH INC — $105,000 · EnvironmentTHE ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA ASSOCIATIONINC — $47,600 · EnvironmentMULTIPLIER — $40,000 · EnvironmentECOAMERICA — $25,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Environment+4 more — $15,000 · EnvironmentMOISHE HOUSE — $100,000 · ReligionJCONNECT INC — $75,000 · ReligionCHABAD OF CORONADO — $30,000 · ReligionREBOOT INC — $25,000 · ReligionALLIANCE COMMUNITY REBOOT INC — $10,000 · Religion+2 more — $10,500 · ReligionREWILD — $100,000 · AnimalsTHE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC — $55,000 · AnimalsHUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Animals+1 more — $5,000 · Animals
Other$3,452,950Arts & Culture$581,010Philanthropy$281,000International$280,500Environment$252,600Religion$250,500Animals$170,000

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 budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE — $500,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $431,810 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMASS DESIGN GROUP LTD — $265,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHAZON INC — $139,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetGROWTORAH INC — $105,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $103,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREWILD — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJewish Arizonans on Campus — $97,500 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $85,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJCONNECT INC — $75,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD CONSERVANCY INC — $70,000 over 2y, 94% of budgetRose Community Foundation — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC — $55,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA ASSOCIATIONINC — $47,600 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND — $42,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMULTIPLIER — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSundance Institute — $34,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREDUCETARIAN FOUNDATION INC — $31,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetBridges from School to Work Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECOAMERICA — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute — $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetREBOOT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEARTH DAY TEXAS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC — $24,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA IMPACT FUNDERS INC — $22,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNCHAINED AT LAST INC — $16,100 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUPSTART BAY AREA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTHY KOSHER FOODS PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 97% of budgetCENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMORASHA OLAMI INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF ARIZONA — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHERITAGE RADIO NETWORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEFARIA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJumpstart Labs Inc DBA Jewish JUMPSTART JSLABS — $8,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR JEWISH FOOD ETHICS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOC SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundFriedman-French Found…Jewish Community Fede…The Emanuel J Friedma…Jewish Community Foun…The Shimon Ben Joseph…Jewish Federation of …United Jewish Appeal-…Combined Jewish Phila…Santa Barbara Foundat…Silicon Valley Commun…The Opaline Fund
Jewish Communal FundNY34.6× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Friedman-French Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Emanuel J Friedman Charitable Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Santa Barbara Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Opaline Fund

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 Friedman Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Bridges from School to Work Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Anacostia Watershed Society Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Friends of Family Farmers — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Friedman Family Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Friedman Family Charitable Trust 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 126 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home