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The Ruth & Arthur Friedman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$400
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$200
Largest grant, FY2023
$200
Organizations funded a year
2 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Total assets, FY2023
$34k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Ruth & Arthur Friedman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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
FY20232$40050%
FY20228$2k13%
FY202114$2k29%
FY202020$4k35%
FY201920$4k40%
FY201816$3k63%
FY201713$3kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$8kReligion$8kHuman Services$1kInternational$650Arts & Culture$425Education$280Food & Nutrition$275Environment$250Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 30 grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($2k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ruth & Arthur Friedman Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Viscardi Center Inc: $2,360 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMarc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $1,025 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities New York Metro Inc: $455 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHospice Care Network: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGlen Cove VEMS Association Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVariety Child Learning Center: $200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $175 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFresh Air Fund: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNewsday Charities Inc: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jewish Foundation for the Righteous Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrassroots Environmental Education Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Interfaith Nutrition Network Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Jewish Congress (American Section) Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $27 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanting Fields Foundation: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $25 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 23.

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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.

The New York Community TrustNY15× affinity5 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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How do I get to The Ruth & Arthur Friedman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Ruth & Arthur Friedman Family Foundation 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 Ruth & Arthur Friedman Family Foundation

How much does The Ruth & Arthur Friedman Family Foundation give?
The Ruth & Arthur Friedman Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $400 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Ruth & Arthur Friedman Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (40%), Religion (40%), Human Services (6%).
Who are The Ruth & Arthur Friedman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: North Country Reform Temple ($7k), The Viscardi Center Inc ($2k), Northwell Health Inc ($2k).
Does The Ruth & Arthur Friedman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Ruth & Arthur Friedman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Ruth & Arthur Friedman Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Jewish Communal Fund, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
Where is The Ruth & Arthur Friedman Family Foundation based?
The Ruth & Arthur Friedman Family Foundation 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 45 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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