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Freedom Reign 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.

$345k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Animals$1.6MHealth$150kFood & Nutrition$100kInternational$100kHuman Services$40kArts & Culture$25kEnvironment$25kEducation$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCY FOR ANIMALS$50,000
FARM SANCTUARY$50,000
HORSES FOR MENTAL HEALTH$50,000
WATERSHEDS$20,000
AHA$20,000
DAVID SHELDRIC WILDLIFE TRUST$20,000
HOOVES$20,000
ANIMAL ASSISTED HAPPINESS$10,036
WILD NARRATIVE PROJECT$10,000
EQUINE ADVOCATES$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
ONE STEP CLOSER$10,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SV$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEROS & HORSES: $5k → 10%ANIMAL ASSISTED HAPPINESS: $20k → 8%ANIMAL ASSISTED HAPPINESS: $10k → 8%ANIMAL ASSISTED HAPPINESS: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
NV
OH
CA
UT
CO
VA
NC
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 14 repeat orgs$527k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
12

Total granted

$1.5M
$437k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+5%

Still filing today

57%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesInternationalHealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AW
    AMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN
    5× · 2019–2023 · $920k · revenue +66%
  • FS
    FARM SANCTUARY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $130k · revenue +7%
  • HF
    Horses for Mental Health
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +5%
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +6%
  • BF
    BEST FRIENDS
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

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.

1
Impact Horse- Connecting Humans and Horses
Animals
2
Horse Hugs
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3
Blue Horse Sanctuary
Animals
4
Happy Trails Horse Rescue

Happy Trails Horse Rescue, located in Bend, Oregon, is dedicated to the protection of horses and their quality of life, to be free from abuse, neglect, abandonment, slaughter, or early euthanasia without just cause. While we strive to…

Animals
5
Happy Hen Animal Sanctuary
Animals
6
Healing With Horseplay Inc

Healing with Horseplay is an animal protection and welfare organization that rescues animals, primarily horses, that are abused, neglected or to be sent to slaughter and then rehabilitates them. After training them they will be sold to…

Animals
7
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
8
For the Love of the Hoof Inc

Animal rescue, we rescue equines from the slaughter pipeline and rehibilitation

Animals
9
Horses Healing Humans Inc

Providing high-quality education and healing therapeutic services that incorporate the physical and emotional benefits of horses. The specific educational, psychological, and therapeutic goals of each client are addressed in a physically…

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10
Freedom Hooves Therapeutic Riding of Nw Colorado
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11
Wolfe Ranch Rescue
Animals
12
War Angel Farms Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equine Advocates Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Riverbend Equine Therapy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN: $920,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGNMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $150,000 · AnimalsMERCY FOR ANIMALS INCFARM SANCTUARY INC: $130,000 · AnimalsFARM SANCTUARY INCBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $100,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY+4 more: $35,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS: $100,000 · OtherBEST FRIENDSIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…DAVID SHELDRIC WILDLIFE TRUST: $45,000 · OtherDAVID SHELDRIC WILDLI…Individual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherAHA: $20,000 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF SV: $20,000 · OtherWATERSHEDS: $20,000 · OtherA MAN WITH A HORSE: $15,000 · OtherONE STEP CLOSER: $15,000 · Other+11 more: $85,000 · Other+11 moreDIRECT RELIEF: $100,000 · InternationalHorses for Mental Health: $100,000 · HealthTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionAnimal Assisted Happiness Inc: $35,138 · Human ServicesHEROES AND HORSES INC: $5,166 · Human ServicesRiverbend Equine Therapy: $25,150 · Arts & Culture
Animals$1,335,000Other$390,000International$100,000Health$100,000Food & Nutrition$50,000Human Services$40,304Arts & Culture$25,150

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN: $920,000 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $130,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHorses for Mental Health: $100,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Assisted Happiness Inc: $35,138 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetRiverbend Equine Therapy: $25,150 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetEQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED: $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILD HORSE CONNECTION CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF LAUGHING BUCK FARM: $10,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetHEROES AND HORSES INC: $5,166 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHeart of Horse Sense: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJameson Animal Rescue Ranch: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • Who funds AMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN ↗
  • Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds Horses for Mental Health ↗
  • Who funds THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Animal Assisted Happiness Inc ↗
  • Who funds Riverbend Equine Therapy ↗
  • Who funds EQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WILD HORSE CONNECTION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF LAUGHING BUCK FARM ↗
  • Who funds HEROES AND HORSES INC ↗
  • Who funds Heart of Horse Sense ↗
  • Who funds Jameson Animal Rescue Ranch ↗

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.

American Endowment Fo…Raymond James Charita…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH10.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Freedom Reign Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Freedom Reign Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Freedom Reign Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Freedom Reign Foundation 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.

    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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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