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Fertig Freedom 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MDS SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| FRIEND TO FRIEND SHOP AT MT ZION UCSF | $6,000 |
| SEVA FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| K9S FOR WARRIORS | $6,000 |
| COMMON ROOTS FARM | $5,000 |
| BENJAMIN CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
| LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION LAAVA | $5,000 |
| RUNNING STRONG FOR AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH | $5,000 |
| GUITARS NOT GUNS | $5,000 |
| LA COMIDA DE CALIFORNIA | $4,000 |
| LONG ISLAND CARES -HARRY CHAPIN FOOD | $4,000 |
| LAST PRISONER PROJECT | $4,000 |
| MUSIC & MEMORY | $4,000 |
| GREEN BRONX MACHINE | $4,000 |
| NEW GROUND | $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 (FY18–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 9% 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 +23% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 11 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
K9S FOR WARRIORS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +87%- GNGUITARS NOT GUNS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +255%
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $18k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- LALOS ANGELES TRADE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -72%
- NLNATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue -70%
- AOAL OTRO LADOgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +218%
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.
Legal services nyc is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…
The foundation, a subsidiary of new york university, fosters legal education and research at new york university's school of law by awarding scholarships, making grants for educational purposes related to law, and supporting programs of…
Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.
To empower the poor to identify and defeat the causes and effects of poverty within their communities by providing high quality civil legal services to the poor, seniors, and persons with disabilities in over twenty three counties in n.…
Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.
To advance economic opportunity and social justice through legal advocacy.
Brooklyn legal services, inc is a not-for-profit corporation organized for the purpose of providing legal assistance to indigent persons in the new york city area in noncriminal proceedings or matters.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Services Unlimited Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Guild Law School Peoples College of Law. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 43 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 THE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC & MEMORY INC ↗
- Who funds GUITARS NOT GUNS INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP GOOD MOURNING INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON ROOTS FARM ↗
- Who funds New Ground Inc ↗
- Who funds GREEN BRONX MACHINE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOCKINGBIRD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES TRADE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Long Island Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds LAST PRISONER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC ↗
- Who funds CANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds URBAN PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds LA COMIDA DE CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DO IT FOR JAMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AL OTRO LADO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE GUILD LAW SCHOOL PEOPLES COLLEGE OF LAW ↗
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.
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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 Fertig Freedom 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.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% 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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