· Private foundation
Freedom Foundation Inc
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMBLESIDE SCHOOL OF MARION | $2,505 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $2,500 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $2,424 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,212 |
| SHRINERS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,717 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,515 |
| FIRST CHURCH OF GOD | $1,508 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,212 |
| HERRIN HOUSE OF HOPE | $1,205 |
| ST FRANCIS ANIMAL CARE CENTER | $1,010 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER | $1,003 |
| WHENLIFESUCKSORG FOUNDATION | $909 |
| THE KNIGHTS SHIELD CHILDREN'S SHELT | $808 |
| GOREVILLE SCHOOL | $808 |
| SALEM EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $700 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide at least 2 days of food to needy families and people.
Food and nonfood assistance to individuals
Provide food to families in need within the local area.
Homeless Shelter
To provide free food to homeless, veterans, and others
To provide food and other grocery items to needy residents of Putnam County, Illinois, and to transients in need.
The Christian mission of the Geneseo-Atkinson food Pantry is to provide food, clothing, and short-term emergency assistance for families and individuals residing in Geneseo (61254) or Atkinson (61235) zip code areas.
Food Pantry
Providing food to those in need.
Provide emergency food for those in need.
Provide food, clothing and emergency shelter for homeless families and individuals.
We provide food, household and personal items as available to combat food scarcity and poverty in our community.
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 76 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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: Watermark Auto Group Foundation · Southern Illinois Hospital Services · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Freedom Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Freedom Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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