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· Private foundation

Freed Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$34kArts & Culture$12kHuman Services$5kHealth$3kYouth Development$2kReligion$1kRecreation & Sports$700Environment$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$171k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUGAR CREEK OPERA$1,000
PRAIRIE DELL CHURCH$300
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%IROQUOIS WEST UNIT: $4k → 12%COUNTRY THEATER WORKSHOP: $300 → 17%IROQUOIS WEST UNIT: $4k → 12%IROQUOIS WEST UNIT: $3k → 12%WATSEKA HIGH SCHOOL UNIT: $3k → 12%IROQUOIS WEST UNIT: $3k → 12%THEATER: $1k → 12%DOUGLAS PARK DISTRICT MANN PARK: $700 → 12%UNIT RIF PROGRAM: $500 → 12%THE GARAGE: $500 → 12%THE GARAGE: $400 → 12%THE GARAGE: $300 → 12%GILMAN DANFORTH DISTRICT LIBRARY: $250 → 12%PRAIRIE DELL CHURCH: $300 → 12%PRAIRIE DELL CHURCH: $300 → 12%WATSEKA HIGH SCHOOL UNIT: $4k → 12%IROQUOIS WEST UNIT: $4k → 12%WATSEKA UNIT: $4k → 12%WATSEKA HIGH SCHOOL UNIT: $3k → 12%WATSEKA SHOW CHOIR BOOSTERS: $3k → 12%LIVING: $1k → 12%WATSEKA SHOW CHOIR BOOSTERS: $1k → 12%SUGAR CREEK OPERA: $1k → 12%SUGAR CREEK OPERA: $1k → 12%THE ARC OF IROQUOIS COUNTY: $650 → 12%OPTIONS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $550 → 12%OPTIONS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIV: $500 → 12%OPTIONS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIV: $500 → 12%WATSEKA UNION DEPOT: $500 → 12%SUGAR CREEK OPERA: $500 → 12%IROQUOIS CO COMMUNITY UNIT: $500 → 12%THE ARC OF IROQUOIS COUNTY: $500 → 12%SUGAR CREEK OPERA: $500 → 12%THE HUB: $500 → 12%PRAIRIE DELL CEMETARY ASSOCIATION: $500 → 12%IROQUOIS CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $325 → 12%FOOD FROM THE HEART: $300 → 12%OPTIONS CENTER FOR INDENDENT LIVING: $250 → 12%CROSSROADS YOUTH CENTER: $500 → 12%CROSSROADS YOUTH CENTER: $300 → 12%PRAIRIEVIEW LUTHERAN HOME: $3k → 12%DANFORTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $640 → 12%DANFORTH MUSIC DEPARTMENT: $600 → 12%IROQUOIS WEST ELEM MUSIC DEPT: $600 → 12%DANFORTH MUSIC PROGRAM: $575 → 12%ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $500 → 12%ONARGA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $300 → 12%IROQUOIS WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $400 → 12%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.

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$41k · 11 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
28

Total granted

$41k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-51%
+12%

Still filing today

45%
4%

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
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2017–2021 · $18k
  • WH
    WATSEKA HIGH SCHOOL UNIT
    3× · 2017–2020 · $10k
  • WS
    WATSEKA SHOW CHOIR BOOSTERS INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $4k · revenue -75%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
  • PL
    PRAIRIEVIEW LUTHERAN HOME
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • L
    LIVING
    one grant, 2017 · $1k

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

04Your field
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 39 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
3/6
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $18,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWATSEKA HIGH SCHOOL UNIT — $10,000 · OtherWATSEKA HIGH SCHOOL UNITIndividual grant recipient — $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPRAIRIEVIEW LUTHERAN HOME — $3,000 · OtherPRAIRIEVIEW LUTHERAN HOME+31 more — $16,290 · Other+31 moreWATSEKA SHOW CHOIR BOOSTERS INC — $3,500 · Arts & CultureWATSEKA SHOW…SUGAR CREEK OPERA LTD — $3,000 · Arts & CultureSUGAR CREEK …CROSSROADS YOUTH CENTER INC — $1,050 · Youth DevelopmentIROQUOIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL & RESIDENT HOME — $150 · Health
Other$51,290Arts & Culture$6,500Youth Development$1,050Health$150

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSUGAR CREEK OPERA LTD — $3,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF IROQUOIS COUNTY — $1,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS YOUTH CENTER INC — $1,050 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIROQUOIS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $525 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIROQUOIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL & RESIDENT HOME — $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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 WATSEKA SHOW CHOIR BOOSTERS INC
  • Who funds SUGAR CREEK OPERA LTD
  • Who funds THE ARC OF IROQUOIS COUNTY
  • Who funds CROSSROADS YOUTH CENTER INC
  • Who funds IROQUOIS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds IROQUOIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL & RESIDENT HOME

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.

Iroquois Federal Foundation IncIL22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Freed Charitable Trust 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 39 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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