· Private foundation
Freeman Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $186k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $43,000 |
| PARK COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $32,500 |
| OPERA MONTANA | $25,000 |
| THE SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $25,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $10,000 |
| THE US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $5,951 |
| BRENTWOOD SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| COUNTERPOINT | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MT FOUNDATION | $4,550 |
| STAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER | $3,500 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $3,500 |
| EAGLE MOUNT | $3,000 |
| MONTANA JEWISH PROJECT | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $298k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LHLivingston Healthcare Foundation2× · 2017–2018 · $298k · revenue +65%
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO4× · 2017–2024 · $113k · revenue +13%
- PCPark County Environmental Council3× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +202%
Funded once
- IOINTERMOUNTAIN OPERAone grant, 2023 · $30k
University of Chicagograduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +52%
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…
The organization pursues higher standards of news coverage of natural resources and the environment -- standards of accuracy, fairness, balance, depth and context.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Wordtheatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 89 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Livingston Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAYWOLF PRESS ↗
- Who funds Park County Environmental Council ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds OPERA MONTANA ↗
- Who funds Montana Jewish Project ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds NEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Counterpoint Inc ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CLASSICS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE THIRD BRANCH ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE BAY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Park County Community Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Solid Rock Foundation Co Rosamond Stanton · The Ferris Foundation · Glassybaby Foundation · The Stake Foundation · David Family Charitable Foundation · The Kendeda Fund · Lore Kann Foundation Inc · The Dovana Foundation Inc · The Homestead Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Freeman Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.