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Freedom Foundation Inc

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$61k
Granted FY2020
76
Grants FY2020
76
Organizations funded FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$700
Largest grant, FY2020
$2,505
States reached, FY2020
6
Total assets, FY2020
$5
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
First Church of God Marion Illinois$1,5081n/a
Herrin House of Hope$1,20511%
Survivor Empowerment Center Inc$1,00310%
WhenLifeSucksorg Foundation$9091n/a
The Night's Shield$80810%
Harvest Deliverance Center Inc$7001n/a
DuQuoin Food Pantry$70011%
Carbondale Warming Center$70011%
Goreville Ministerial Alliance$70011%
Murphysboro Food Pantry Inc$70010%
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All grantees of Freedom Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
First Church of God Marion Illinois$1,5081n/a
Herrin House of Hope$1,20511%
Survivor Empowerment Center Inc$1,00310%
WhenLifeSucksorg Foundation$9091n/a
The Night's Shield$80810%
Harvest Deliverance Center Inc$7001n/a
DuQuoin Food Pantry$70011%
Carbondale Warming Center$70011%
Goreville Ministerial Alliance$70011%
Murphysboro Food Pantry Inc$70010%
Marion Ministerial Alliance$70010%
Victory Chiristian Center of Southern Illinois Inc$7001n/a
Reformed Presbyterian Church$7001n/a
Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church$7001n/a
The Promise Mission$7001n/a
We Love White County Inc$70011%
Bethany Village Inc$70010%
Clarity Womens Care$60611%
Project H O P E Inc$5051n/a
Gumdrops Nfp$30310%
Honor Flight Inc$30310%
Illinois Firefighter's Association Inc$20210%

Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($45k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Freedom Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHerrin House of Hope: $1,205 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSurvivor Empowerment Center Inc: $1,003 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Night's Shield: $808 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDuQuoin Food Pantry: $700 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCarbondale Warming Center: $700 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGoreville Ministerial Alliance: $700 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMurphysboro Food Pantry Inc: $700 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMarion Ministerial Alliance: $700 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWe Love White County Inc: $700 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBethany Village Inc: $700 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetClarity Womens Care: $606 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGumdrops Nfp: $303 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHonor Flight Inc: $303 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Firefighter's Association Inc: $202 over 1y, 0.3% 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 14.

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.

Watermark Auto Group FoundationDE13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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Find your warmest path to Freedom Foundation Inc 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.

About Freedom Foundation Inc

How much does Freedom Foundation Inc give?
Freedom Foundation Inc reported 76 grants totaling $60,895 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Freedom Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Religion (25%), Food & Nutrition (18%), Human Services (12%).
Who are Freedom Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: First Church of God Marion Illinois ($2k), Herrin House of Hope ($1k), Survivor Empowerment Center Inc ($1k).
Does Freedom Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Freedom Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Watermark Auto Group Foundation, Southern Illinois Hospital Services, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Freedom Foundation Inc based?
Freedom Foundation Inc is based in IL.

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 76 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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