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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.

$234k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$376kPhilanthropy$173kArts & Culture$152kEducation$110kEnvironment$71kCivil Rights$58kReligion$42kInternational$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $186k
$750
Median grant
13
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH UNITED FUND$43,000
PARK COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$32,500
OPERA MONTANA$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$25,000
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$25,000
THE SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER$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
NATURE CONSERVANCY$3,500
STAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER$3,500
MONTANA JEWISH PROJECT$3,000
EAGLE MOUNT$3,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIVINGSTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $198k → 10%GUIDING EYES: $100 → 9%LIVINGSTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CZECH REPUBLIC: $100 → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC: $100 → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC: $100 → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CZECH REPUBLIC: $50 → 14%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

VT
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
CT
CA
VA
MD
NM
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$940k · 44 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
26

Total granted

$940k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+22%

Still filing today

77%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthAnimalsInternationalOther
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

  • LH
    Livingston Healthcare Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $298k · revenue +65%
  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    4× · 2017–2024 · $113k · revenue +13%
  • PC
    Park County Environmental Council
    3× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +202%

Funded once

  • IO
    INTERMOUNTAIN OPERA
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • University of Chicagograduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +52%
  • HT
    HEAL THE BAYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +34%
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
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Project Drawdown

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;…

Education
6
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
7
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
8
Panthera Corporation

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.

Animals
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
International Snow Leopard Trust

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…

Animals
12
Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources

The organization pursues higher standards of news coverage of natural resources and the environment -- standards of accuracy, fairness, balance, depth and context.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 89 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/65
Grantees still filing
45/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Livingston Healthcare Foundation: $297,763 · Human ServicesLivingston Healthcare Foundatio…+2 more: $450 · Human ServicesJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $113,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUN…PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,543 · PhilanthropyPARK COUNTY COMMU…+1 more: $3,250 · PhilanthropyINTERMOUNTAIN OPERA: $30,000 · OtherINTERMOUNTAIN OPERAJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $22,000 · OtherJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH…NATIONAL CZECH&SLOVAK MUSEUM: $15,600 · OtherNATIONAL CZECH&SLOVAK MUSE…Counterpoint Inc: $14,500 · OtherCounterpoint IncIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,000 · OtherMontana Jewish Project: $35,000 · OtherMontana Jewish ProjectFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $27,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFE…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $29,500 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE+37 more: $53,524 · Other+37 moreGRAYWOLF PRESS: $43,360 · Arts & CultureGRAYWOLF PRES…OPERA MONTANA: $36,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA MONTANASIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $28,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENT…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $6,487 · Arts & CultureMONTANA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $5,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $3,845 · Arts & CultureTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $54,134 · EducationTHE UNIVERSI…NEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $15,000 · EducationNEW VILLAGE …BRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $14,000 · EducationBRENTWOOD SC…University of Chicago: $10,000 · EducationUniversity o…THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $10,000 · EducationTHE LATIN SC…CLASSICS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $9,200 · EducationCLASSICS FOR…President and Fellows of Middlebury College: $4,200 · Education+3 more: $3,150 · EducationPark County Environmental Council: $40,285 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $20,725 · EnvironmentMONTANA CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $2,200 · Environment+5 more: $2,600 · EnvironmentBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $38,950 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $3,500 · Health+5 more: $1,225 · Health
Human Services$298,213Philanthropy$166,793Other$247,624Arts & Culture$123,192Education$119,684Environment$65,810Health$43,675

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLivingston Healthcare Foundation: $297,763 over 2y, 22% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $113,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $54,134 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,543 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGRAYWOLF PRESS: $43,360 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPark County Environmental Council: $40,285 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $38,950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPERA MONTANA: $36,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetMontana Jewish Project: $35,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $29,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $28,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCounterpoint Inc: $14,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLASSICS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $9,200 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $6,487 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER: $4,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $4,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3,775 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEagle Mount: $3,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE THIRD BRANCH: $2,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMONTANA CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $2,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHEAL THE BAY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInsulin For Life USA Inc: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING HOPE CAT SANCTUARY: $1,550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEVEN ARROWS INC: $1,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELK RIVER ARTS & LECTURES: $1,180 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE CHARLEVOIX ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORDTHEATRE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SCHOOL COLLABORATIVE: $750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPOETS AND WRITERS INC: $690 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNibakure Community Village: $600 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOZEMAN SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE FOR A CHILD USA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT K9 HERO: $430 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $355 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC: $350 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF MONTANA PBS INC: $290 over 6y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Park County Community FoundationMT26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Freeman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Freeman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report 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.

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 89 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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