· Private foundation
Freedman 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASPEN ART MUSEUM | $140,000 |
| ASPEN ART MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,200 |
| ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| BUDDY PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| ASPEN ART MUSEUM | $7,000 |
| ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER | $3,137 |
| BUDDY PROGRAM | $3,000 |
| BEST BUDDIES COLORADO | $2,500 |
| SUMMIT 54 | $2,500 |
| ASPEN ART MUSEUM | $900 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $550) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TATHE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC4× · 2020–2023 · $406k · revenue +22%
- RTROOM TO READ2× · 2020–2021 · $200k · revenue +7%
- ARANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $131k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +69%
- SISWISS INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +82%
- MMPTFone grant, 2020 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Sundance institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences.
Aspen public schools was formed to serve some of central fresno's most "at-risk" children. since 2004, the organization has served economically disadvantaged students, specifically targeting foster and homeless youth and those living in…
Aces' mission is to inspire a life-long commitment to the earth by providing innovative and immersive programming for all ages.
The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…
We edify and inspire students and educators to grow, learn and lead.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The american film institute ("afi") is a national institute providing leadership in screen education and the recognition and celebration of excellence in the art of film, television and digital media.
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
Our inclusive, globally-minded community develops highly motivated and academically successful bilingual learners. isd students are inter-culturally adept and make positive contributions in a complex world.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…
Junior achievement - rocky mountain, inc. (ja) is critical for inspiring and preparing young people to own their economic success. in partnership with business and educators, ja immerses students in disruptive, real-world experiences,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aspen Art Museum and the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 31 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds SWISS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT54 ↗
- Who funds VALLEY SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds ASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Aspen Homeless Shelter ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds ASPEN FILM ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ASPEN ↗
- Who funds Neshama Center ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds ENDLESS PAWSIBILITIES SERVICE DOG ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Aspen Community Foundation · Big Blue Sky Foundation · Castaways Foundation · Robins Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The Denver Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Freedman Family Foundation 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.