· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIRIAM FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| PONY BIRD INC | $8,000 |
| CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH | $8,000 |
| CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF | $7,500 |
| ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF | $7,500 |
| VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY | $7,000 |
| WILLIAM M BEDELL ACHIEVEMENT & RESOURCE | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles W Frees and Jean H Frees Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles W Frees and Jean H Frees Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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