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Fredecker 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.

$35k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$451kReligion$74kRecreation & Sports$46kHealth$39kArts & Culture$36kHuman Services$34kAnimals$10kCivil Rights$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,812
Median grant
3
States reached
$80k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PADUA HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
HERITAGE CLASSIC FUND$10,000
PLAYHOUSE SQUARE$5,812
PELATONIA$5,000
REMEMBER NHU$3,188
THE CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRESH START FURNITURE BANK: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 14 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
18

Total granted

$1.0M
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+24%

Still filing today

29%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HC
    HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +50%
  • P
    PELOTONIA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +32%
  • CT
    CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • CM
    CLEVELAND MAIDAN ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +3%
  • TM
    THE MYSTIC AQUARIUM
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • KK
    KAREN KELLY KRAUS FOR JUDGE
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Curetivity Foundation

Provide monetary or financial aid exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes and to solicit, receive, maintain and disburse funds for these purposes and for the betterment of children.

Health
2
National Pediatric Cancer Foundation Inc

National pediatric cancer foundation (npcf) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding research to eliminate childhood cancer. our focus is to fund research to find less toxic, more targeted therapies by partnering with leading…

Health
3
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
4
CureCervicalCancer

Dedicated to the early detection and prevention of cervical cancer around the globe for the women who need it most.

International
5
Center for a New American Security Inc

The mission of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is to develop strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies building on the the expertise and experience of its staff and advisors. CNAS engages policy…

International
6
National Taxpayers Union Foundation

National taxpayers union foundation (ntuf) provides crucial, impactful research and analysis showing americans how taxes, government spending, and regulations affect them. with our unique combination of policy expertise, outreach know-how,…

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7
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
8
United States Association for Unhcr

USA for UNHCR protects and supports refugees by mobilizing resources, elevating awareness, and driving action through a network of engaged supporters.

International
9
Chn Housing Partners

Chn's mission is to leverage the power of affordable housing to improve lives and communities.

Housing & Shelter
10
New Hope Chinese Cancer Care Foundation

Provide needed & supportive services to chinese cancer patients & family and provide cancer prevention education

Education
11
Children's Miracle Network

Children's miracle network (dba "children's miracle network hospitals") works to save kids' lives by bringing people together to raise money for children's healthcare in local communities.

Unclassified
12
Texas Neurofibromatosis Foundation

To fund neurofibromatosis research and education and to provide for support groups for those facing the illness.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Tumor Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Operation Rest and Relax Usa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PADUA HIGH SCHOOL: $450,000 · OtherPADUA HIGH SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $327,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST CHRISTOPHER CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherPLAYHOUSE SQUARE: $34,884 · Other+22 more: $85,000 · Other+22 moreHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $45,000 · PhilanthropyPELOTONIA: $20,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $13,000 · HealthRemember NHU Inc: $6,188 · Youth DevelopmentCLEVELAND MAIDAN ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · InternationalFRESH START FURNITURE BANK INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$946,884Philanthropy$45,000Education$20,000Health$13,000Youth Development$6,188International$5,000Human Services$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPELOTONIA: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION REST AND RELAX USA: $20,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRemember NHU Inc: $6,188 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND MAIDAN ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRESH START FURNITURE BANK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION REST AND RELAX USA ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Remember NHU Inc ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND MAIDAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FRESH START FURNITURE BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH CHALLENGE ↗

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.

The Blackbaud Giving FundSC11.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fredecker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fredecker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Fredecker Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fredecker Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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