FundersNew York

Frieder Family Foundation

Chappaqua, NY · EIN 81-5161500. Reported 73 grants totalling $1,912,000 to 34 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$1,912,000granted, 2021-2024
34organizations funded
61%of grantees funded again the next year
$6,524,216assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Frieder Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $150,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
8 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
39 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
13 grants
$100,000 and Up
4 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Seeds of Peace IncNew York, NY$405,000442024
Northern Westchester HospitalMount Kisco, NY$375,000442024
Bronx LacrossePurchase, NY$178,500442024
JccaNew York, NY$170,000442024
Open DoorOssining, NY$120,000332023
Horace Greeley Scholarship FundChappaqua, NY$80,000442024
Neighbors Link CorpMount Kisco, NY$80,000442024
Eagles Charitable FoundationPhiladelphia, PA$50,000332024
Open Door FoundationTarrytown, NY$50,000112024
Abington Friends SchoolJenkintown, PA$40,000442024
Cardinal Hayes High SchoolBronx, NY$40,000332024
Feeding Westchester IncElmsford, NY$40,000442024
Einstein Healthcare NetworkPhiladelphia, PA$30,000332024
The Matthew Larson FoundationFranklin Lakes, NJ$30,000332024
Congregation Rodeph SholomNew York, NY$25,000112024
Friends of United Hatzalah IncNew York, NY$25,000112023
Shalom Hartman Institution of North AmericaNew York, NY$25,000112023
Youth IncNashville, TN$25,000112024
Mount Kisco Day Care CenterMount Kisco, NY$20,000222024
Multiple Myeloma Research FoundationNorwalk, CT$20,000332024
Albert Einstein Medical CenterPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Everytown for Gun SafetyNew York, NY$10,000112024
Jewish Family & Children's ServicesPhoenix, AZ$10,000112021
Mount Kisco Child Care Center IncMount Kisco, NY$10,000112021
Temple Shaare TefylaNew York, NY$10,000112024
Temple Sharaa TefylaNew York, NY$10,000112021
Thorncroft Equestrian CenterMalvern, PA$6,000222023
East Harlem Tutorial ProgramNew York, NY$5,000112021
The Summer CampBridgton, ME$4,500222023
New York Public RadioNew York, NY$2,500112023
Quogue Wildlife RefugeQuogue, NY$2,500112023
A Cure in Our LifetimeChappaqua, NY$1,000112023
Blythedale Childrens HospitalValhalla, NY$1,000112023
Brown UniversityProvidence, RI$1,000112024

17 of 34 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 61%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 46 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
10 grants
Education
8 grants
Health Care
6 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
6 grants
Diseases & Disorders
4 grants
Recreation & Sports
4 grants
International Affairs
4 grants
Arts & Culture
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202115$310,000$10,000
202215$455,000$10,000
202323$560,000$10,000
202420$587,000$15,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 88% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$1.7M
Pennsylvania
$136K
New Jersey
$30K
Tennessee
$25K
Connecticut
$20K
Arizona
$10K
Maine
$4K
Rhode Island
$1K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund21 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc20 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program19 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust18 shared recipientsJewish Communal Fund14 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc14 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Frieder Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 10 Danny Ln, Chappaqua, NY, 10514. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 81-5161500 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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