Michigan · Private foundation
Freedom of Spirit Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $200k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 10
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Freedom of Spirit Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $200k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $527k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $200k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $180k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $325k | 89% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $340k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Michigan University | $380,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Holocaust Memorial Center Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Center for Courage & Renewal | $125,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Kalamazoo Abraham Lincoln Institute | $100,009 | 1 | 94% |
| Florida Oceanographic Society Inc | $75,025 | 2 | 1% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Citizenship Community | $50,000 | 1 | 45% |
| West Virginia University Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Henry Ford Health St John Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New York Public Radio | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Michigan University | $380,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Holocaust Memorial Center Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Center for Courage & Renewal | $125,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Kalamazoo Abraham Lincoln Institute | $100,009 | 1 | 94% |
| Florida Oceanographic Society Inc | $75,025 | 2 | 1% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Citizenship Community | $50,000 | 1 | 45% |
| West Virginia University Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Henry Ford Health St John Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New York Public Radio | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Center for Action and Contemplation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Western Michigan University Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Oholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Boomer Esiason Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($675k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Freedom of Spirit Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About Freedom of Spirit Fund
- How much does Freedom of Spirit Fund give?
- Freedom of Spirit Fund reported 2 grants totaling $200,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Freedom of Spirit Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Health (19%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are Freedom of Spirit Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Western Michigan University ($380k), Holocaust Memorial Center Inc ($150k), Center for Courage & Renewal ($125k).
- Does Freedom of Spirit Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Freedom of Spirit Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Freedom of Spirit Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Freedom of Spirit Fund based?
- Freedom of Spirit Fund is based in MI.
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