How much does Freeman Family Foundation give?

Freeman Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $28,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Freeman Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Health (17%), Environment (8%).

Who are Freeman Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc ($60k), Jewish Family Service of San Diego ($27k), Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc ($9k).

Does Freeman Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Freeman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Freeman Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, The Denver Foundation.

Where is Freeman Family Foundation based?

Freeman Family Foundation is based in CO.

Freeman Family Foundation

Freeman Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Freeman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$29k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$101kHealth$48kEnvironment$24kPhilanthropy$23kEducation$14kReligion$13kArts & Culture$11kCrime & Legal$9kOther$0

02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$650

Median grant

States reached

$616k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SOCIETY FOR PROTECTION OF NATURE IN ISRAEL	$5,000
HEBREW FREE LOAN OF SAN DIEGO	$5,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO	$5,000
EZZREE INSTITUTE	$3,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ROCKY MOUNTAINS	$2,500
COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO	$1,200
CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE	$1,000
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO	$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA	$650
SUNGATE KIDS	$500
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES	$500
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE - DENVER	$500
ISRAEL RELIGIOUS ACTION CENTER	$500
RAY OF HOPE	$500
NESHAMA ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH CHAPLAINS	$400

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$243k · 49 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$243k

$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+28%

Still filing today

51%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsEducationCrime & LegalInternationalOther

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

JF
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +107%
JF
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO
8× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +374%
PB
PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +60%

Funded once

JF
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO
one grant, 2024 · $6k
FR
FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -85%
HM
HEARTLAND MENTAL HEALH CENTER (CHAR
one grant, 2023 · $2k

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.

Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal

Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal

Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment

Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy

Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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Denver Bar Association

To promote justice, its administration, and its availability to all sectors of society; to support and assist the membership in the delivery of legal services; to uphold the honor and dignity of the bar, and foster respect for the legal…

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Colorado Bar Association

To advance the science of jurisprudence, secure the more efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation, advocate thorough and continuing legal education, uphold the honor and integrity of the bar,…

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Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement

Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services

Towards Justice of Colorado

Towards justice is a nonprofit law firm that seeks to advance economic equity and worker power through impact litigation, strategic policy advocacy, and collaboration with organizers and public agencies. we were founded in response to the…

Civil Rights

Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Advancing the well-being of all coloradans through relationships free from abuse and oppression.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ray of Hope Inc. 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

46 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. 46 of the 82 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

44/46

Grantees still filing

34/46

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$130,715Human Services$93,850Health$23,750Environment$11,750Arts & Culture$9,550Civil Rights$7,550Crime & Legal$6,850

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.

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO32.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Gary Philanthropy · Caring for Denver Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Anschutz Family 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 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 moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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