· Private foundation
Charles W Frees and Jean H Frees Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIRIAM FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| PONY BIRD INC | $8,000 |
| CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH | $8,000 |
| ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF | $7,500 |
| CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF | $7,500 |
| VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY | $7,000 |
| WILLIAM M BEDELL ACHIEVEMENT & RESOURCE | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MFMIRIAM FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2025 · $51k · revenue +28%
- CICENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF7× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +1%
- PBPONY BIRD INC5× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +212%
Funded once
- SESPECIAL EDUCATION ENRICHMENT FDTNone grant, 2017 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $22k
- PBPONY BIRD INCone grant, 2020 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Empowering deaf children to listen, learn and talk.
The hope learning academy serves children with intellectual/developmental disabilities and neurological disorders and their families by providing homes in which to grow, schools in which to learn, clinics in which to become healthier,…
Madison health's vision is to provide exceptional healthcare in a respectful, compassionate, and healing environment.
Listen and Talk teaches deaf and hard of hearing children to communicate and learn through listening and spoken language.
The mission of the new york institute for special education is to provide quality educational programs and support to students and families in a safe caring environment to awaken and inspire student curiosity, lifelong learning and…
Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.
To maximize the potential of children with special needs by providing individualized, family centered intervention services.
To provide services to children and adolescents with developmental disabilities. the school runs preschool and school age programs.
The society enhances independence, empowers individuals and enriches the lives of people who are visually impaired or blind.
We help advance the independence of individuals with disabilities & other special needs.
The center's mission is to help children and adults with differing abilities achieve their dreams by overcoming barriers to living, working, learning & enjoying recreational opportunities in the community of their choice.
The mission of the center for autism education is to accommodate the needs of everyone we serve in a respectful, supportive, and safe environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Institute for the Deaf and the most unlike its peers is Miriam Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MIRIAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds PONY BIRD INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH ↗
- Who funds TREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM M BEDELL ACHIEVEMENT & RESOURCE CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Pott Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Centene Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Edward Jones Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Charles W Frees and Jean H Frees Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.