New York · Private foundation
The Frieman 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.
- $314k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 93
- Grants FY2025
- 112
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $525
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $52,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 88 to 112
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $104k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations The Frieman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 92 | $314k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 112 | $283k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 98 | $295k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 93 | $146k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 97 | $118k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 88 | $174k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $257,100 | 6 | 0% |
| American Friends of Migdal OHR | $111,650 | 6 | 1% |
| Colel Chabad | $99,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Ezer Mizion | $45,300 | 5 | 0% |
| Belev Echad Inc | $36,700 | 6 | 0% |
| One Israel Fund Ltd | $18,860 | 6 | 0% |
| Congregation Orach Chaim Yotsei Ukraine | $18,685 | 5 | n/a |
| American Friends of Bet El Yeshiva | $16,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Friends of Maagalim Inc | $12,634 | 5 | 2% |
| American Friends of Yeshivat Bnei Rachel | $12,000 | 3 | 5% |
Show all 101 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 136 recipients with no EIN on record ($492k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Frieman Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · The Irving I Moskowitz Foundation · Swieca Children Foundation · Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation · The Ojc Fund · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Joseph H Feldman Family Foundation Inc · Hyman & Ann Arbesfeld Foundation Inc · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ
How this is measured
About The Frieman Foundation
- How much does The Frieman Foundation give?
- The Frieman Foundation reported 93 grants totaling $313,587 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 88 and 112 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Frieman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (36%), Religion (25%), Health (11%).
- Who are The Frieman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Friends of the Israel Defense Forces ($257k), American Friends of Migdal OHR ($112k), Colel Chabad ($99k).
- Does The Frieman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Frieman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Frieman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Fjc, The Irving I Moskowitz Foundation.
- Where is The Frieman Foundation based?
- The Frieman Foundation is based in NY.
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