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Freas Foundation Incorporated

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.4M
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Philanthropy$4.4MArts & Culture$279kEducation$205kEnvironment$190kHuman Services$76kReligion$69kPublic Safety & Disaster$58kFood & Nutrition$56kOther$0
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,096,625
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pratt Family Fund Schwab CHaritable$1,096,625
Freas Redux Fund Schwab Charitable$1,096,625
Oly Freas Fund Schwab Charitable$1,096,625
CL Fund Schwab Charitable$1,096,625
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Centre County Women's Resource Cent: $8k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
WA
IL
OR
PA
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
NM
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 51 repeat orgs$4.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 51 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
14

Total granted

$1.1M
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+8%

Still filing today

35%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • MF
    MAYMONT FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $68k · revenue +122%
  • LG
    LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $65k · revenue +107%
  • IW
    INTERFAITH WORKS
    3× · 2017–2022 · $49k · revenue +540%

Funded once

  • EC
    Eastside Cooperative Preschool
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +8%
  • CC
    CHESTERFIELD COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • CS
    CENTRE SAFE
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +24%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
2
Pacific Science Center Foundation

Pacific science center (pacsci) ignites curiosity in every child and fuels a passion for discovery, experimentation, and critical thinking in all of us.

Arts & Culture
3
Virginia Living Museum Inc

The museum connects people to nature by delivering educational classes, programs, exhibits, events and demonstrations. staff and volunteers engage learners of all ages on a 23 acre campus setting. indoor and outdoor learning opportunities…

Arts & Culture
4
Center Stage Associates Inc

See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…

Arts & Culture
5
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

Bainbridge island museum of art (bima) inspires curiosity, wonder and understanding by connecting people with the contemporary art and craft of the puget sound region.

Arts & Culture
6
Riverviews

Creating spaces where contemporary art inspires connection, sparks creativity, and fosters innovation.

Arts & Culture
7
Museum of Sonoma County

The museum of sonoma county engages and inspires our diverse community with art and history exhibitions, collections, and public programs that are inclusive, educational, and relevant.

Arts & Culture
8
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
9
Center for Contemporary Art & Culture

To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.

Arts & Culture
10
Center for Wooden Boats

The Center for Wooden Boats promotes Northwest Maritime Heritage through education, interpretation and hands-on experience in building, maintaining and using historic small craft.

Recreation & Sports
11
Maryhill Museum of Art

Maryhill Museum of Art ignites a journey of educational enrichment in the Columbia River Gorge by preserving and interpreting art and historic collections.

Arts & Culture
12
Northwest Film Forum

Northwest Film Forum incites public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences. A nonprofit film and arts center located in Seattle, Northwest Film Forum presents hundreds of films, festivals, community events,…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Science Museum of Virginia Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Olympia Film Society. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHomeless Services & ShelterAnimal Rescue and AdoptionCommunity Health CentersCommunity Arts OrganizationsUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Food Pantries & AssistanceDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Senior Support ServicesLand Conservation Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%0%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr15%35%20–35yr9%26%35–55yr12%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr15%34%20–35yr9%29%35–55yr12%16%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%1/28
the rest of the field
17%
17,088/103,016

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.

04the grantee network

24 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 69 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Freas Redux Fund Schwab Charitable — $1,096,625 · OtherFreas Redux Fund Schwab CharitableCL Fund Schwab Charitable — $1,096,625 · OtherCL Fund Schwab CharitablePratt Family Fund Schwab CHaritable — $1,096,625 · OtherPratt Family Fund Schwab CHaritableOly Freas Fund Schwab Charitable — $1,096,625 · OtherOly Freas Fund Schwab Charitable+48 more — $786,210 · Other+48 moreMAYMONT FOUNDATION — $68,000 · Arts & CultureBELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE COUNTY — $32,270 · Arts & CultureWindow Seat Media — $23,239 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC — $18,500 · Arts & CultureSTATE THEATRE INC — $14,347 · Arts & CultureOlympia Film Society — $10,500 · Arts & CultureLEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $65,000 · EnvironmentKITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY — $24,239 · EnvironmentPACIFIC RIVERS — $16,750 · EnvironmentARBUTUS FOLK SCHOOL — $28,941 · EducationHypatia-in-the-Wood — $13,278 · EducationPodium RVA — $5,000 · EducationFrederick Health Hospital Inc — $18,000 · HealthCENTRE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $14,400 · HealthFEED MORE INC — $31,962 · Food & NutritionCENTRE COUNTY PAWS INC — $14,340 · AnimalsPROJECT CHANCE INC — $9,930 · Animals
Other$5,172,710Arts & Culture$166,856Environment$105,989Education$47,219Health$32,400Food & Nutrition$31,962Animals$24,270

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION — $68,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $65,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetINTERFAITH WORKS — $49,015 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE COUNTY — $32,270 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetFEED MORE INC — $31,962 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetARBUTUS FOLK SCHOOL — $28,941 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetKITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY — $24,239 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWindow Seat Media — $23,239 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetEmpowerment 4 Girls — $21,990 over 4y, 11% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC — $18,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFrederick Health Hospital Inc — $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES FOR SOUTH SOUND — $17,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPACIFIC RIVERS — $16,750 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCENTRE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $14,400 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSTATE THEATRE INC — $14,347 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRE COUNTY PAWS INC — $14,340 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHypatia-in-the-Wood — $13,278 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetOlympia Film Society — $10,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetEastside Cooperative Preschool — $10,286 over 1y, 16% of budgetPROJECT CHANCE INC — $9,930 over 2y, 15% of budgetCENTRE SAFE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCICLAVIA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 MAYMONT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
  • Who funds INTERFAITH WORKS
  • Who funds BELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE COUNTY
  • Who funds FEED MORE INC
  • Who funds ARBUTUS FOLK SCHOOL
  • Who funds KITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY
  • Who funds Window Seat Media
  • Who funds Empowerment 4 Girls
  • Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Frederick Health Hospital Inc
  • Who funds SENIOR SERVICES FOR SOUTH SOUND
  • Who funds PACIFIC RIVERS
  • Who funds CENTRE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE
  • Who funds STATE THEATRE INC
  • Who funds CENTRE COUNTY PAWS INC
  • Who funds Hypatia-in-the-Wood

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.

Thurston County Economic Development CouWA19.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thurston County Economic Development Cou · The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound · Centre Foundation Inc · Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council · The Norcliffe Foundation · Tides Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good

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 Freas Foundation Incorporated 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Frederick Health Hospital Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Freas Foundation Incorporated?

Find your warmest path to Freas Foundation Incorporated through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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