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The Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research

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.

$3.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$300,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,200,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$41M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$3.6M29%
FY20244$4.4M0%
FY20237$2.5M29%
FY202211$4.0M9%
FY202111$2.9M27%
FY202015$2.3M80%
FY201910$2.8M40%
FY201817$6.5M65%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$20MMembership Benefit$7.0MArts & Culture$3.1MEducation$530kCommunity Improvement$520kHuman Services$150kPhilanthropy$120kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Northwell Health Foundation$8,435,00052%
The Actors' Fund of America$7,021,81885%
Northwell Health Inc$5,552,1453n/a
Rosie's Theater Kids Inc$1,366,000722%
Howl Arts Inc$789,75521%
La Mama Experimental Theatre Club Inc$644,00035%
Some Serious Business$520,0007100%
Trustees of Tufts College$500,00030%
Beth Israel Medical Center$150,00010%
Community Health Project Inc$145,00030%
Show all 33 grantees
All grantees of The Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Northwell Health Foundation$8,435,00052%
The Actors' Fund of America$7,021,81885%
Northwell Health Inc$5,552,1453n/a
Rosie's Theater Kids Inc$1,366,000722%
Howl Arts Inc$789,75521%
La Mama Experimental Theatre Club Inc$644,00035%
Some Serious Business$520,0007100%
Trustees of Tufts College$500,00030%
Beth Israel Medical Center$150,00010%
Community Health Project Inc$145,00030%
Hebrew Senior Life Inc$100,00010%
Satellite Collective Inc$25,000137%
Housing Works Inc$25,00010%
Vangeline Theater Inc$21,000314%
Bowery Arts and Science Ltd$20,75028%
Gerald J & Dorothy R Friedman Foundation Inc$20,000193%
Military Religious Freedom Foundation Inc$12,00021%
Old Church Society Inc$11,00011%
The Kristen Ann Carr Fund$11,00020%
Independent Feature Project Inc$10,00010%
Apicha Community Health Center$10,00010%
Fractured Atlas Inc$10,00010%
Theatre Tweed Inc$10,000126%
Downtown Music Productions Inc$10,000130%
Movement Research Inc$10,00011%
Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (Usa)$7,50020%
City Harvest Inc$5,00010%
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts$5,00011%
Visual AIDS for the Arts Inc$5,00011%
24 Bond Arts Center Inc$5,0001n/a
Citymeals-On-Wheels$4,20010%
Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens Inc$4,0001n/a
God's Love We Deliver Inc$2,00010%

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $8,435,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetThe Actors' Fund of America: $7,021,818 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetRosie's Theater Kids Inc: $1,366,000 over 7y, 22% of budgetHowl Arts Inc: $789,755 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLa Mama Experimental Theatre Club Inc: $644,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetSome Serious Business: $520,000 over 7y, 100% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $500,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBeth Israel Medical Center: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Health Project Inc: $145,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSatellite Collective Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetHousing Works Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVangeline Theater Inc: $21,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetBowery Arts and Science Ltd: $20,750 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetGerald J & Dorothy R Friedman Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 93% of budgetMilitary Religious Freedom Foundation Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetOld Church Society Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Kristen Ann Carr Fund: $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetIndependent Feature Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetApicha Community Health Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTheatre Tweed Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetDowntown Music Productions Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetMovement Research Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPrader-Willi Syndrome Association (Usa): $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVisual AIDS for the Arts Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $4,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGod's Love We Deliver Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

Gerald J & Dorothy R Friedman Foundation IncNY30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About The Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research

How much does The Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research give?
The Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research reported 7 grants totaling $3,630,855 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (64%), Membership Benefit (22%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are The Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northwell Health Foundation ($8.4M), The Actors' Fund of America ($7.0M), Northwell Health Inc ($5.6M).
Does The Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research 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 Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gerald J & Dorothy R Friedman Foundation Inc, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Tides Foundation.
Where is The Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research based?
The Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research is based in NY.

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 50 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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