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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 FY2025still arriving
93
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$478kReligion$329kHealth$144kEducation$82kHuman Services$46kArts & Culture$39kPhilanthropy$37kCivil Rights$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k84 grants · $97k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $164k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$525
Median grant
10
States reached
$104k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDF$52,600
COLEL CHABAD$36,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHIBA HOSPITAL$36,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BNEI RACHEL$22,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDAL OHR$21,600
Individual grant recipient$16,474
BELEV ECHAD$12,200
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECH$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF EZER MIZION$10,000
STERN COLLEGE$7,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI$7,000
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY$5,180
CHARIDY CHESSED VRACH CHARIDYCOM$4,116
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA BNEI RACHEL$4,000
CHABAD TORAH CENTER$3,800
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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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $256 → 14%RENEWAL OF LIFE: $400 → 20%RENEWAL OF LIFE: $360 → 20%RENEWAL OF LIFE: $360 → 20%RENEWAL OF LIFE: $180 → 20%AHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC: $1k → 20%OHEL CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES: $450 → 20%OHEL CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES: $385 → 20%OHEL CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES: $375 → 20%OHEL CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES: $360 → 20%OHEL CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES: $360 → 20%OHEL CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES: $360 → 20%BELEV ECHAD: $12k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $10k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $7k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $5k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $2k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $2k → 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

ME
IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
KS
NC
DC
TX
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 123 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

123 repeat relationships: 75 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

123
97

Total granted

$1.1M
$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+17%

Still filing today

41%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalPhilanthropyReligionHealthEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    6× · 2019–2025 · $257k · revenue +115%
  • AF
    American Friends of Migdal OHR
    6× · 2019–2025 · $112k · revenue +18%
  • BE
    BELEV ECHAD INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $37k · revenue +577%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF INSTITUTE OF TORAH ETHICS
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF INS
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $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
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
2
Sherit Isroel
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3
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
4
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
5
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
6
American Friends of Tzir Hemed
Philanthropy
7
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
8
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
9
American Friends of Neveh Zion

To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel

Religion
10
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Daas Aharon Inc

To promote, assist, and sponsor the spreading of Jewish religious education in Israel. The organization will also organize inspirational gatherings in the USA to enhance the participants' Torah knowledge.

Education
12
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Carnegie Hill Neighbors 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, 2017–2025.

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. 81 of the 238 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/81
Grantees still filing
61/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLEL CHABAD: $99,000 · OtherCOLEL CHABADIndividual grant recipient: $55,991 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSTERN COLLEGE: $45,000 · OtherSTERN COLLEGEAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHIBA HOSPITAL: $37,750 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHIBA HOSPITALAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER: $37,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTERAMERICAN FRIENDS OF INSTITUTE OF TORAH ETHICS: $25,000 · Other+148 more: $378,637 · Other+148 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $257,100 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORC…EZER MIZION: $45,300 · InternationalEZER MIZIONONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $18,860 · International+19 more: $77,644 · International+19 moreAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $111,650 · Youth DevelopmentAmerican …BELEV ECHAD INC: $36,700 · Human ServicesOhel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc: $2,290 · Human Services+3 more: $2,556 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BET EL YESHIVA: $16,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $9,300 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $7,180 · Education+1 more: $1,005 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT BNEI RACHEL: $12,000 · PhilanthropyHEBRON FUND INC: $8,420 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT HESDER SDEROTINC: $4,900 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,870 · PhilanthropyBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1,265 · PhilanthropyADOPT A PLATOON SOLDIER SUPPORT EFFORT INC: $1,180 · Philanthropy+5 more: $3,805 · PhilanthropyIsrael Empowered Inc: $11,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $10,740 · Arts & CultureALGEMEINER INC: $6,650 · Arts & Culture
Other$678,378International$398,904Youth Development$111,650Human Services$41,546Education$33,485Philanthropy$33,440Arts & Culture$28,890

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $257,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $111,650 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetEZER MIZION: $45,300 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBELEV ECHAD INC: $36,700 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $18,860 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BET EL YESHIVA: $16,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAAGALIM INC: $12,634 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT BNEI RACHEL: $12,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $11,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Empowered Inc: $11,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $10,740 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC: $10,350 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $9,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEBRON FUND INC: $8,420 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Kedumim Inc: $7,200 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $7,180 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Darche Noam Inc - David Shapell College of Jewish Studies: $7,100 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALGEMEINER INC: $6,650 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT HESDER SDEROTINC: $4,900 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBeis Midrash of Queens: $4,270 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $3,905 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHINENI INC: $3,610 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA: $3,185 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUST ONE LIFE INC: $2,535 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAdi Israel Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHABAD OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $2,425 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOhel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc: $2,290 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $2,160 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMIT CHILDREN INC: $2,080 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUpper East Side Hatzolah Inc: $1,940 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,870 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRELIGIOUS ZIONISTS OF AMERICA MIZRACHI HAPOEL HAMIZRACHI INC: $1,680 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $1,610 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $1,385 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRENEWAL OF LIFE INC: $1,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1,265 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA: $1,220 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDAH: $1,215 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NISHMAT INC: $1,180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADOPT A PLATOON SOLDIER SUPPORT EFFORT INC: $1,180 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBL GIRLS TOWN JERUSALEM INC: $1,120 over 3y, 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 FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of Migdal OHR ↗
  • Who funds EZER MIZION ↗
  • Who funds BELEV ECHAD INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE ISRAEL FUND LTD ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BET EL YESHIVA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAAGALIM INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT BNEI RACHEL ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds Israel Empowered Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HEBRON FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of Kedumim Inc ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of Darche Noam Inc - David Shapell College of Jewish Studies ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC ↗

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 FundFjcThe Irving I Moskowit…Swieca Children Found…Gertrude and Morris B…The Ojc FundGreater Miami Jewish …Joseph H Feldman Fami…Hyman & Ann Arbesfeld…Erlbaum Family Founda…Jewish Federation of …Jewish Community Foun…
Jewish Communal FundNY47.6× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get 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.

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 238 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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