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Free Yourself Charitable Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2019
17
Grants FY2019
17
Organizations funded FY2019
94%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 17
FY2018 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 94% of the organizations Free Yourself Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201917$50k94%
FY20186$114kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2019.

Religion$102kAnimals$15kHealth$12kEducation$11kArts & Culture$7kRecreation & Sports$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Phoenix Multisport Inc$10,00010%
Gray Paws Sanctuary$4,82117%
All but Furgotten Inc$3,00011%
No Dog Left Behind Inc$2,50010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$2,00010%
Westmoreland County Food Bank Inc$2,00010%
Pet Friends Inc$2,00011%
Pennsylvania State Animal Response Team$2,00011%
Keystone Bulldog Rescue of Swpa$5001n/a
Humane Animal Rescue$50010%

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($135k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Free Yourself Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPhoenix Multisport Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGray Paws Sanctuary: $4,821 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetAll but Furgotten Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNo Dog Left Behind Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestmoreland County Food Bank Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPet Friends Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPennsylvania State Animal Response Team: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHumane Animal Rescue: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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 Pittsburgh FoundationPA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · 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.

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About Free Yourself Charitable Foundation

How much does Free Yourself Charitable Foundation give?
Free Yourself Charitable Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $50,321 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2019.
What does Free Yourself Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2019, its largest causes are Religion (62%), Animals (9%), Health (7%).
Who are Free Yourself Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2019: Phoenix Multisport Inc ($10k), Gray Paws Sanctuary ($5k), All but Furgotten Inc ($3k).
Does Free Yourself Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 94% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Free Yourself Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Free Yourself Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Free Yourself Charitable Foundation based?
Free Yourself Charitable Foundation is based in PA.

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 22 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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