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The Morris and Phyllis Friedman Foundation C/O Steven Friedman

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$45k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$14,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations The Morris and Phyllis Friedman Foundation C/O Steven Friedman funded were first-time grantees, receiving 92% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY2024still arriving6$45k67%
FY20234$65k75%
FY20221$45k0%
FY20212$45k0%
FY20203$30k67%
FY20191$25k100%
FY20181$40kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$105kAnimals$55kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kEducation$40kHuman Services$15kInternational$10kHousing & Shelter$10kEmployment$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Animal Welfare League$45,00032%
Farber Hebrew Day School-Yeshival Akiva$39,7411n/a
Northeast Ohio Adoption Services$14,50011%
Warren Family Mission$10,00010%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$10,00010%
Hearts in Action International Inc$10,00021%
Avamar Foundation Inc$5,00013%
Bella Womens Center$5,00010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($155k), not named here.

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.

The Wm M & a Cafaro Family FoundationOH15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · The Albert M Covelli Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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Find your warmest path to The Morris and Phyllis Friedman Foundation C/O Steven Friedman 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.

About The Morris and Phyllis Friedman Foundation C/O Steven Friedman

How much does The Morris and Phyllis Friedman Foundation C/O Steven Friedman give?
The Morris and Phyllis Friedman Foundation C/O Steven Friedman reported 6 grants totaling $44,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The Morris and Phyllis Friedman Foundation C/O Steven Friedman fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (36%), Animals (19%), Public Safety & Disaster (17%).
Who are The Morris and Phyllis Friedman Foundation C/O Steven Friedman's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Animal Welfare League ($45k), Farber Hebrew Day School-Yeshival Akiva ($40k), Northeast Ohio Adoption Services ($15k).
Does The Morris and Phyllis Friedman Foundation C/O Steven Friedman fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Morris and Phyllis Friedman Foundation C/O Steven Friedman accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Morris and Phyllis Friedman Foundation C/O Steven Friedman?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation, The Albert M Covelli Foundation, Premier Bank Foundation.
Where is The Morris and Phyllis Friedman Foundation C/O Steven Friedman based?
The Morris and Phyllis Friedman Foundation C/O Steven Friedman is based in OH.

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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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