South Carolina · Private foundation
Bessent-Freeman Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $158k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $49k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Bessent-Freeman Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 3 | $158k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $28k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $568k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $611k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harlem Children's Zone Inc | $1,300,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Rockefeller University | $250,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fordham Preparatory School | $125,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| American Conservative Union Foundationinc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Fordham University | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Spence School | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Porter-Gaud Foundation | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| British Schools & Universities Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Development Now Initiatives Corp | $48,772 | 1 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($465k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bessent-Freeman Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Guffey Family Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Chicago Community Trust · Almeida Family Foundation · Hillenbrand Family Foundation · Lenhardt Foundation · Wf Foundation · Richard and Susan Leadem Family · The Clyde and Summer Anderson Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Bessent-Freeman Family Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Bessent-Freeman Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Bessent-Freeman Family Foundation Inc give?
- Bessent-Freeman Family Foundation Inc reported 3 grants totaling $157,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Bessent-Freeman Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (47%), Education (23%), Religion (7%).
- Who are Bessent-Freeman Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Harlem Children's Zone Inc ($1.3M), The Rockefeller University ($250k), Fordham Preparatory School ($125k).
- Does Bessent-Freeman Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bessent-Freeman Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bessent-Freeman Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Guffey Family Foundation, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.
- Where is Bessent-Freeman Family Foundation Inc based?
- Bessent-Freeman Family Foundation Inc is based in SC.
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