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The Ruth & Arthur Friedman Family Foundation at a glance

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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
States reached
$200
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
2
States reached
$34k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE CHILDREN HOSPITAL RESEARCH$200
LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION$200
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LONG ISLAND CARES: $100 → 7%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $550 → 6%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $450 → 6%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $425 → 6%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $400 → 6%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $285 → 6%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $250 → 6%MUTUAL CONCERNS COMMITTEE: $50 → 6%MUTUAL CONCERNS COMMITTEE: $25 → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $400 → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $225 → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $200 → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $100 → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $100 → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $100 → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $100 → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $100 → 6%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17k · 22 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 21 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
21

Total granted

$17k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+6%

Still filing today

64%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesInternationalHealthArts & CultureReligionEnvironmentOther
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

  • TV
    THE VISCARDI CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $2k · revenue +43%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $800 · revenue +125%
  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Charities New York Metro Inc
    5× · 2018–2022 · $455 · revenue +312%

Funded once

  • NH
    NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +6%
  • TJ
    THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $100 · revenue +3%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $100
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
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
2
Northwell Healthcare Inc

Northwell healthcare inc. coordinates policy making and strategic planning by providing advisory and administrative support services to affiliated health care organizations within northwell health; whose mission is to improve the health of…

Health
3
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
4
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
5
Northern Westchester Hospital Association

Northern westchester hospital association is an affiliate within northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care;…

Health
6
Glen Cove Hospital

Glen cove hospital is part of northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality geriatric care; educating the current and future…

Health
7
Plainview Hospital

Plainview hospital is part of northwell health, inc ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
8
Staten Island University Hospital

Staten island university hospital is an affiliate within northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…

Health
9
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
10
Central Suffolk Hospital

Central suffolk hospital ("csh") d/b/a peconic bay medical center ("pbmc") is a not-for-profit hospital consisting of acute health care, a skilled nursing facility and a certified home care agency. csh provides a full range of health care…

Health
11
John T Mather Memorial Hospital

John t. mather memorial hospital ("mather") is a non-profit community hospital that is part of northwell health. mather strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical…

Health
12
Northwell Inc

Northwell, inc. is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. northwell, inc. is organized and operated exclusively for the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Care Network; the most unlike its peers is Katz Institute for Women's Health 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

26 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. 26 of the 45 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
18/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH COUNTRY REFORM TEMPLE: $7,020 · OtherNORTH COUNTRY REFORM TEMPLEFAMILY FOCUS: $600 · OtherFAMILY FOCUSRonald McDonald House Charities New York Metro Inc: $455 · Other+25 more: $2,388 · Other+25 moreTHE VISCARDI CENTER INC: $2,360 · Human ServicesTHE VISCARDI CENTER INCMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,025 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREA…HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $300 · Human ServicesHOSPICE CARE NETWORK+2 more: $175 · Human ServicesNORTHWELL HEALTH INC: $1,775 · Community ImprovementNORTHWELL …ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $800 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthThe Fistula Foundation: $100 · Health+1 more: $25 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $300 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $200 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC: $100 · InternationalHIAS INC: $50 · InternationalSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $175 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $100 · Arts & CultureVARIETY CHILD LEARNING CENTER: $200 · Education
Other$10,463Human Services$3,860Community Improvement$1,775Health$1,425International$650Arts & Culture$275Education$200

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 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 NATURE CONSERVANCY: $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
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.

The New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The New York Community TrustNY15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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 Ruth & Arthur Friedman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ruth & Arthur Friedman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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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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.

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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