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The Friedman Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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The Friedman Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$66k
Granted FY2022
7
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Friedman Family Charitable Trust’s FY2026 grant dollars went to Jewish Community Foundation Of Greater Phoenix, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2026 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Friedman Family Charitable Trust named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $66k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

27
’17
33
’18
28
’19
15
’20
12
’21
5
’22
0
’23
2
’24
1
’25
0
’26

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

01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$956kPhilanthropy$947kReligion$912kArts & Culture$629kSocial Science$503kEnvironment$345kInternational$281kAnimals$246kOther$0
02FY2022 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUNG ISRAEL OF SCOTTSDALE$20,000
JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK$10,000
CHABAD OF CORONADO$10,000
MORASHA OLAMI INC$10,000
SLATER TORAH ACADEMY$7,500
HILARITY FOR CHARITY$5,000
TO BE HONEST DBA THE TEL AVIV INSTITUTE$3,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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

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

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 32 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +186% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2022, 28 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
82

Total granted

$2.7M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+186%
+38%

Still filing today

53%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $405k 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
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationReligionFood & 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

  • 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
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
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
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…

—
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Media Impact Funders Inc; the most unlike its peers is Earth Day Texas Inc. 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

81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 131 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/81
Grantees still filing
61/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 INSTITUTEJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA: $360,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONAHAZON INC: $139,500 · Other+81 more: $1,455,700 · Other+81 moreINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $431,810 · Arts & CultureINTERNATION…THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM CO…Sundance Institute: $34,200 · Arts & CultureSundance In…MEDIA IMPACT FUNDERS INC: $22,500 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $42,500 · Arts & Culture+5 moreCHABAD OF CORONADO: $185,000 · ReligionMOISHE HOUSE: $100,000 · ReligionJCONNECT INC: $75,000 · ReligionREBOOT INC: $25,000 · Religion+3 more: $20,500 · ReligionJEWISH 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 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHOENIX: $13,098 · 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 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $10,000 · Environment+4 more: $15,000 · EnvironmentREWILD: $100,000 · AnimalsTHE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC: $55,000 · AnimalsHUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Animals+1 more: $5,000 · Animals
Other$3,875,450Arts & Culture$581,010Religion$405,500Philanthropy$294,098International$280,500Environment$252,600Animals$170,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetECOAMERICA: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEARTH DAY TEXAS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetREBOOT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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 budgetYESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF ARIZONA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHERITAGE RADIO NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUPSTART BAY AREA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHEALTHY KOSHER FOODS PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 97% of budgetSEFARIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMORASHA OLAMI INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL 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 budgetTHE HUMANE LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATOMIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNEW YORK JEWISH AGENDA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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.

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.

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

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 Friedman Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Friedman Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 131 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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