Illinois · Private foundation
Freed Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 80%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 12
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $171k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 80% of the organizations Freed Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 2 | $1k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $4k | 80% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $600 | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $9k | 86% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $10k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $12k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $12k | 70% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $11k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Watseka Show Choir Boosters Inc | $3,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Sugar Creek Opera Ltd | $3,000 | 4 | 5% |
| The Arc of Iroquois County | $1,150 | 2 | 0% |
| Crossroads Youth Center Inc | $1,050 | 3 | 0% |
| Danforth Historical Society | $640 | 1 | n/a |
| Iroquois County Historical Society | $525 | 2 | 0% |
| Watseka Union Depot | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Onarga Historical Society | $300 | 1 | n/a |
| Food From the Heart Inc | $300 | 1 | n/a |
| Iroquois Memorial Hospital & Resident Home | $150 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($48k), not named here.
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: Iroquois Federal Foundation Inc · Raymond F Donovan Trust 1015010096 · Mary Helen Roberts Trust · Arthur and Gesena Griffin Trust Yellow Cardinal Advisory Group
How this is measured
About Freed Charitable Trust
- How much does Freed Charitable Trust give?
- Freed Charitable Trust reported 2 grants totaling $1,300 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Freed Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (58%), Arts & Culture (21%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Freed Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Watseka Show Choir Boosters Inc ($4k), Sugar Creek Opera Ltd ($3k), The Arc of Iroquois County ($1k).
- Does Freed Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Freed Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Freed Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Iroquois Federal Foundation Inc, Raymond F Donovan Trust 1015010096, Mary Helen Roberts Trust.
- Where is Freed Charitable Trust based?
- Freed Charitable Trust is based in IL.
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