· Private foundation
Eugene & Ruth Freedman Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of EUGENE & RUTH FREEDMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIXON CENTER FOR MILITARY AND VETERANS SERVICES | $125,249 |
| EVERGREEN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA | $15,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SEATTLE | $15,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF MILWAUKEE | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMAMU-EL B'NE JESHURUN | $8,770 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION-WOMEN'S CENTER | $5,000 |
| JEWISH MUSEUM MILWAUKEE | $5,000 |
| KLINE GALLAND HOME | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON-FREEDMAN REMAK SCHOLARSHI | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON-FREEDMANREMAK SCHLORSHIP | $2,000 |
| NA'AMAT USA | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $335k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA7× · 2017–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +62%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MAUI INC7× · 2017–2023 · $600k · revenue +147%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE7× · 2017–2024 · $260k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BELLEVUEone grant, 2023 · $75k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +39%
- HSHOPELINK SERVICE CENTERSone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
Restoring hope, building futures, and strengthening our communities through programs with youth, young adults and families. we support the behavioral health of at-risk and in-crisis youth across the greater south king county area. we take…
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
Strengthening communities is the y's cause through programs and services focused on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.
The burbank community ymca (burbank y) is committed to strengthening the foundation of our community through youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. we work within our community to ensure that everyone, regardless of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Camp for All Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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. 23 of the 44 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MAUI INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KURT SUZUKI FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Camp for All Kids ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Holocaust Center For Humanity ↗
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: American Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Eugene & Ruth Freedman Family 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.
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
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.
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