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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 FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
  • $250k+5 grants · $3.5M
$300,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIEDMAN DIABETES INSTITUTE$1,200,000
THE ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA$1,000,000
HOWL ARTS INC$780,855
FRIEDMAN TRANSGENDER HEALTH AND WELLNESS PROGRAM AT LENOX HILL$300,000
ROSIE'S THEATER KIDS INC$260,000
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION$70,000
GERALD J & DOROTHY R FRIEDMAN FOUNDATION INC$20,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HEBREW SENIORLIFE INC: $100k → 16%NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3.0M → 6%CALLEN-LORDE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $50k → 17%SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS: $120k → 18%trustees of tufts college: $300k → 16%NORTHWELL HEALTH: $2.7M → 6%CALLEN-LORDE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $50k → 17%SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS: $100k → 18%DIXON PLACE: $50k → 16%NORTHWELL HEALTH: $2.5M → 6%SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS: $100k → 18%TUFTS NEW ENGLAND MEDICAL CENTER: $220k → 16%NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2.0M → 6%SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS: $100k → 18%NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1.7M → 6%SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS: $50k → 18%Tufts New England Medical Center: $190k → 16%NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1.6M → 6%northwell health: $362k → 6%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $50k → 17%TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE: $100k → 16%NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $70k → 6%FRIEDMAN TRANSGENDER HEALTH AND WELLNESS PROGRAM AT LENOX HILL: $370k → 17%FRIEDMAN TRANSGENDER HEALTH AND WELLNESS PROGRAM AT LENOX HILL: $300k → 17%TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE: $100k → 16%FRIEDMAN TRANSGENDER HEALTH AND WELLNESS PROGRAM AT LENOX HILL: $300k → 17%lenox hill hospitalnorthwell health foundation: $1.2M → 17%LENOX HILL HOSPITALNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1.2M → 17%FRIEDMAN DIABETES INSTITUTE: $1.2M → 17%THE GERALD J FRIEDMAN DIABETES INSTITUTE: $900k → 17%mount sinai - beth israel: $150k → 17%THE ACTORS FUND: $1.8M → 17%the actors fund: $500k → 17%FRIEDMAN CENTER FOR LYMPHEDEMA RESEARCH & TREATMENT: $57k → 17%HOWL ARTS INC: $781k → 17%TWEED THEATERWORKS: $80k → 17%LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB: $514k → 17%LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB: $80k → 17%THE ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA: $1.1M → 17%THE ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA: $1.0M → 17%THE ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA: $1.0M → 17%THE ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA: $1.0M → 17%THE ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA: $600k → 17%ROSIE'S THEATER KIDS: $450k → 17%ROSIE'S THEATER KIDS INC: $260k → 17%ROSIE'S THEATER KIDS: $242k → 17%ROSIE'S THEATER KIDS: $240k → 17%ROSIE'S THEATER KIDS: $100k → 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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29M · 20 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
26

Total granted

$29M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+48%

Still filing today

65%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
Arts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyMembership BenefitOther
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

  • NH
    NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $8.4M · revenue +3%
  • TA
    THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA
    8× · 2017–2025 · $7.0M · revenue +80%
  • RT
    ROSIE'S THEATER KIDS INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GERALD J FRIEDMAN DIABETES INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $900k
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue -3%
  • HS
    Hebrew Senior Life Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -36%
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 Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
3
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
4
Performance Space 122 Inc

See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…

Arts & Culture
5
Hovnatan Arts Nyc Inc
Arts & Culture
6
World Trade Center Performing Arts Center Inc

The perelman performing arts center creates connections by cultivating bonds between extraordinary artists and communities with exemplary performances in active dialogue across the arts in our flexible intimate spaces, inviting…

Arts & Culture
7
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
8
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
9
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
10
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
11
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
12
Soho Repertory Theatre Inc

Soho repertory provides radical theater makers with productions of the highest caliber and tailor-made development at key junctures in their artistic practice. we elevate artists as thought leaders and citizens who change the field and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America; the most unlike its peers is Gerald J & Dorothy R Friedman Foundation 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

33 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. 33 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
22/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $8,435,000 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION+3 more: $305,000 · HealthTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $7,021,818 · Membership BenefitTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMER…lenox hill hospitalnorthwell health foundation: $2,407,855 · Otherlenox hill hospitalnorth…FRIEDMAN DIABETES INSTITUTE: $1,200,000 · OtherFRIEDMAN DIABETES INSTIT…FRIEDMAN TRANSGENDER HEALTH AND WELLNESS PROGRAM AT LENOX HILL: $970,000 · OtherFRIEDMAN TRANSGENDER HEA…THE GERALD J FRIEDMAN DIABETES INSTITUTE: $900,000 · OtherTHE GERALD J FRIEDMAN DI…SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS: $520,000 · OtherSOME SERIOUS BUSINESSTUFTS NEW ENGLAND MEDICAL CENTER: $410,000 · OtherTUFTS NEW ENGLAND MEDICA…+19 more: $561,393 · Other+19 moreNORTHWELL HEALTH INC: $5,552,145 · Community ImprovementNORTHWELL HEALTH IN…+1 more: $25,000 · Community ImprovementROSIE'S THEATER KIDS INC: $1,366,000 · Arts & CultureROSIE'S TH…HOWL ARTS INC: $789,755 · Arts & CultureHOWL ARTS …LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC: $644,000 · Arts & CultureLA MAMA EX…+10 more: $121,750 · Arts & CultureTrustees of Tufts College: $500,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $20,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationHebrew Senior Life Inc: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE KRISTEN ANN CARR FUND: $11,000 · Philanthropy
Health$8,740,000Membership Benefit$7,021,818Other$6,969,248Community Improvement$5,577,145Arts & Culture$2,921,505Education$530,000Philanthropy$111,000

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 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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

Gerald J & Dorothy R …The Hyde and Watson F…Tides FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…American Online Givin…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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 →

Open a dossier: Gerald J & Dorothy R Friedman Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Tides Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Old Church Society Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research 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 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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