· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
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
How this is measured
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%- HTHEAL THE BAYgraduatedone 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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 HEAL THE BAY ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
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.
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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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