Foster Friess Awards and Achievements

- The Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award presented by the Champ in 1999.

- Humanitarian of the Year presented at the National Charity Awards Dinner in Washington, D.C., whose past honorees include Coretta Scott King, Bob Hope, President George Bush, and Lady Bird Johnson.

- Inducted in the Delaware Business Leaders Hall of Fame in October 2006.

- The October 2005 'Citizen of the Month' award from Rotary Club for outstanding philanthropic and volunteer work in the Jackson Hole, WY community.

- Hillsdale College's Adam Smith Award, previously granted to Sir John Templeton, President Ronald Reagan, Secretary of Treasury William Simon and Wendy's David Thomas.

- Recipient of the Thomas J. Reese award/Catholic Charities tribute in 2001

- University of Delaware's Medal of Distinction award on January 5, 2002

- The Canterbury Medal from the Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty, granted for "courage in the defense of religious liberty."

-Albert Schweitzer Leadership Award from HOBY, 2001

- The Richard M. DeVos Free Enterprise Award for Exceptional Leadership granted by the Council for National Policy.

- The first recipient of the David R. Jones Award for Leadership in Philanthropy. Subsequent recipients are Jim Kimsey, the founder of AOL; Eugene Lang, founder of "I Have a Dream" Foundation; Thomas L. Phillips and Lady Blanka Rosensteil.

- Honorary Doctorate of Law at Pepperdine University in Malibu, as well as honorary degrees at Regent University in Virginia Beach, and Goldey Beacom College in Wilmington, Delaware.

- Former president of the Council for National Policy, a group of 400 national business and political leaders who address public policy issues, following in the footsteps of Rich DeVos and Attorney General Edwin Meese.