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Freeman E Fairfield Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$122k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Freeman E Fairfield Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Food & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving16$122k31%
FY202314$121k50%
FY20221$108k0%
FY202111$87k0%
FY202011$113k27%
FY201715$106kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$186kFood & Nutrition$147kInternational$127kHuman Services$61kArts & Culture$43kHousing & Shelter$34kEnvironment$15kEducation$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of Freeman E Fairfield Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Best Buddies International Inc$127,00050%
Rm Pyles Boys Camp$90,00053%
Food Finders Inc$52,00040%
Meals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc$40,00021%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach$19,00020%
Conservation Corps of Long Beach$15,00050%
Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today$8,00031%
Young Horizons$6,00030%
Caterinas Club$5,00010%
Century Villages at Cabrillo Inc$5,00010%
Assistance League of Long Beach$5,00010%
The Salvation Army$5,0001n/a
Life Steps Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Power 4 Youth Inc$2,00011%
Long Beach Day Nursery$2,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($273k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Freeman E Fairfield Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $127,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRm Pyles Boys Camp: $90,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetFood Finders Inc: $52,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach: $19,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetConservation Corps of Long Beach: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLong Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today: $8,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetYoung Horizons: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCaterinas Club: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCentury Villages at Cabrillo Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAssistance League of Long Beach: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLife Steps Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPower 4 Youth Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLong Beach Day Nursery: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Earl B & Loraine H Miller FoundationCA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation · The Josephine S Gumbiner Foundation · Bess J Hodges Foundation · The Rudolph J & Daphne a Munzer Foundation · Long Beach Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Crail-Johnson Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Temple Family Charitable Foundation · Porter John W Tuw

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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About Freeman E Fairfield Foundation

How much does Freeman E Fairfield Foundation give?
Freeman E Fairfield Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $122,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Freeman E Fairfield Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (28%), Food & Nutrition (22%), International (19%).
Who are Freeman E Fairfield Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Best Buddies International Inc ($127k), Rm Pyles Boys Camp ($90k), Food Finders Inc ($52k).
Does Freeman E Fairfield Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Freeman E Fairfield Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Freeman E Fairfield Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation, The Josephine S Gumbiner Foundation, Bess J Hodges Foundation.
Where is Freeman E Fairfield Foundation based?
Freeman E Fairfield Foundation is based in CA.

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 30 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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