· Private foundation
Fertig Freedom 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 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 |
| RUNNING STRONG FOR AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH | $5,000 |
| LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION LAAVA | $5,000 |
| BENJAMIN CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
| GUITARS NOT GUNS | $5,000 |
| COMMON ROOTS FARM | $5,000 |
| LA COMIDA DE CALIFORNIA | $4,000 |
| GREEN BRONX MACHINE | $4,000 |
| LAST PRISONER PROJECT | $4,000 |
| MUSIC & MEMORY | $4,000 |
| LONG ISLAND CARES -HARRY CHAPIN FOOD | $4,000 |
| PROJECT NICU | $4,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against -28% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
K9S FOR WARRIORS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +87%- GNGUITARS NOT GUNS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +255%
- CRCOMMON ROOTS FARM6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +54%
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%
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.
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.
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…
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.
Legal services nyc-bronx is a not-for-profit corporation organized for the purposes of providing legal assistance to indigent persons in the new york city area in noncriminal proceedings or matters.
To advance economic opportunity and social justice through legal advocacy.
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.…
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 excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.
To provide access to the civil justice system through quality legal services, encompassing practical solutions, to low income, vulnerable and otherwise underserved residents of marin county.
Unites lawyers and other related parties in an organization which functions as an effective political and social force in the service of the people
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 44 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 THE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds GUITARS NOT GUNS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC & MEMORY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON ROOTS FARM ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New Ground Inc ↗
- Who funds GREEN BRONX MACHINE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP GOOD MOURNING INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOCKINGBIRD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES TRADE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Long Island Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC ↗
- Who funds LAST PRISONER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LA COMIDA DE CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds DO IT FOR JAMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds URBAN PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT NICU ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AL OTRO LADO ↗
- Who funds THE GUILD LAW SCHOOL PEOPLES COLLEGE OF LAW ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES UNLIMITED INC ↗
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: Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fertig Freedom Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fertig Freedom Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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