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The Frier Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k14 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADAMAH | $35,000 |
| BENNINGTON COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| CHIZUK AMUNO CONGREGATION | $15,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB FUND | $11,000 |
| GREENPEACE FUND | $10,000 |
| CLIMATE ACCESS FUND CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| ACTION FOR THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY | $10,000 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $5,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE (RMI) | $5,000 |
| ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE | $5,000 |
| THE CLIMATE REALITY PROJECT | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHANTI | $5,000 |
| TURNUP | $5,000 |
| AMANDLA DEVELOPMENT INC | $2,500 |
| CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK (CCAN) | $2,200 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
GREENPEACE FUND INC6× · 2018–2023 · $65k · revenue +57%- CFCENTER FOR NEW DATA2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +107%
- BCBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION3× · 2021–2023 · $45k · revenue +9%
Funded once
BUILDON INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $32k · revenue +49%- ACACTBLUE CHARITIES INCone grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue -97%
FILM INDEPENDENTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +83%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.
To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.
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.
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…
Middle east investment initiative, inc. (meii) stimulates sustainable economic activity and long-lasting job creation in the middle east and north africa (mena) by designing and deploying finance and technical assistance programs to…
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.
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…
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and the most unlike its peers is Filbert Street Garden. 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.
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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 69 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
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- Who funds CENTER FOR NEW DATA ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ADAMAH INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDON INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds ACTBLUE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds GOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHANTI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FILM INDEPENDENT ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE ↗
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- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Abell Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Inc · Blanket Fort Foundation · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc
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 Frier Foundation Inc 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.
- Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
- Marylandisrael Development Center Inc — 48% of income from government
- Baltimore Safe Haven Corp — 28% of income from government
- Asylee Women Enterprise Inc — 26% of income from government
- Adamah Inc — 10% of income from government
- Art With a Heart Inc — 4% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.
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