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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.

$295k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Environment$428kFood & Nutrition$266kHuman Services$213kArts & Culture$150kYouth Development$133kHealth$117kEducation$96kHousing & Shelter$54kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $135k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $160k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$25,000
FEED MORE INC$20,000
CROSSOVER MINISTRY INC$15,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF RICHMOND$15,000
LITTLE HANDS OF VIRGINIA INC$15,000
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,003
THE MAGGIE WALKER COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$10,000
ROBINSON THEATRE COMMUNITY ARTS$10,000
GREATER RICHMOND SCAN-STOP CHILD$10,000
MEDICAL HOME PLUS INC$10,000
REESTABLISH RICHMOND$10,000
BLUE SKY FUND$10,000
YMCA RICHMOND$7,500
VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS$7,500
CHALLENGE DISCOVERY PROJECTS INC$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $273k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $7k → 14%FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $10k → 6%HIGHLAND SCHOOL INC: $3k → 6%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $5k → 14%FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $5k → 6%HIGHLAND SCHOOL INC: $3k → 6%NEXTUP RVA: $5k → 9%ADOPTION RHODE ISLAND: $5k → 14%HIGHLAND SCHOOL INC: $3k → 6%SHALOM FARMS: $5k → 9%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $5k → 14%SHALOM FARMS: $5k → 9%NEXTUP RVA: $5k → 9%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $25k → 22%LITTLE HANDS OF VIRGINIA INC: $15k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $15k → 9%NEXTUP RVA: $10k → 9%LITTLE HANDS OF VIRGINIA INC: $10k → 9%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $20k → 22%MEDICAL HOME PLUS INC: $10k → 9%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $15k → 22%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $8k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $8k → 9%YMCA RICHMOND: $8k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5k → 22%REESTABLISH RICHMOND: $10k → 22%REESTABLISH RICHMOND: $10k → 22%REESTABLISH RICHMOND: $5k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MA
PA
RI
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 42 repeat orgs$348k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
22

Total granted

$1.2M
$285k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+30%

Still filing today

95%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthOther

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

  • SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $141k · revenue +46%
  • CM
    Children's Museum of Richmond
    4× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +126%
  • YR
    YWCA RICHMOND
    3× · 2020–2025 · $68k · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • JR
    JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $112k · revenue +30%
  • SM
    SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • CH
    CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
2
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
3
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.

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4
The Commonwealth Institute for

To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.

Public Benefit
5
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services
6
Virginia Community Food Connections

Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.

Food & Nutrition
7
Chip of Virginia

Chip of virginia administers and monitors a network of 7 agencies in 27 virginia localities who work with low-income families to assure that children from birth to age 6 receive the health care necessary for them to lead healthy lives,…

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8
Virginia Peninsula Foodbank

To distribute food effectively through collaborative efforts that minimize hunger, promote nutrition and encourage self-reliance through education.

Food & Nutrition
9
Community Health Center of Richmond Inc

The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.

Health
10
Feeding Southwest Virginia

To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.

Food & Nutrition
11
Federation of Virginia Food Banks

Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.

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12
New Schools for Virginia

New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed More Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cj's Thumbs Up Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMember Recreation ClubsProfessional Association Ne…Regional Heritage & Conserv…Regional Economic Developme…Professional Industry Assoc…Homelessness Prevention & S…Affordable Housing for Vuln…Public Interest Advocacy & …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%9%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr13%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%6%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr14%40%35–55yr13%30%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
12%
2,065/16,778

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.

04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 75 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
40/60
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $141,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA — $25,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITAL — $25,000 · OtherST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · OtherTHE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND — $28,500 · OtherTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC — $25,000 · OtherLOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INC — $23,000 · OtherCHESTERFIELD FOOD BANK OUTREACH CENTER — $20,000 · OtherTHE MAGGIE WALKER COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $20,000 · Other+30 more — $236,213 · Other+30 moreYWCA RICHMOND — $67,500 · Human ServicesYWCA RICHMONDSHALOM FARMSINC — $25,000 · Human ServicesSHALOM FARMSINCLITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE HANDS VIRGINI…RE-ESTABLISH RICHMOND INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesRE-ESTABLISH RICHMON…FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN — $25,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS ASSOCIATION …NEXTUP RVA — $20,000 · Human ServicesNEXTUP RVACROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND — $17,000 · Human ServicesCROSSROADS RHODE ISL…FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER — $15,000 · Human ServicesFULL CIRCLE GRIEF CE…VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS — $15,000 · Human ServicesVIRGINIA HOME FOR BO…Jewish Family Services Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesJewish Family Servic…MEDICAL HOME PLUS — $10,000 · Human Services+3 more — $19,000 · Human Services+3 moreCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUN…JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION — $111,500 · EnvironmentJAMES RIVER ASSOCIA…+2 more — $10,000 · EnvironmentFEED MORE INC — $65,000 · Food & NutritionFEED MORE INCTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP — $34,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FAMILY PAN…THE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC — $30,000 · Food & NutritionTHE SOCIETY OF…RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — $24,000 · Food & NutritionRHODE ISLAND C…CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK — $20,000 · Food & NutritionCHESTER COUNTY…A Place of Miracles Inc — $10,000 · Food & NutritionBACKPACK BUDDIES FOUNDATION OF LOUDOUN INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionChildren's Museum of Richmond — $70,000 · Arts & CultureROBINSON THEATER COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER — $27,500 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCADENCE THEATRE COMPANY INC — $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $3,000 · Arts & CultureBLUE SKY FUND — $34,000 · Youth DevelopmentMOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATION — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentGREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC — $35,000 · Crime & LegalVIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $14,000 · Crime & LegalRISE RICHMOND INC — $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$563,713Human Services$278,500Environment$261,500Food & Nutrition$193,000Arts & Culture$121,500Youth Development$64,000Crime & Legal$54,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $141,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION — $111,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetChildren's Museum of Richmond — $70,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetYWCA RICHMOND — $67,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFEED MORE INC — $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBLUE SKY FUND — $34,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP — $34,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND — $28,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetROBINSON THEATER COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER — $27,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSHALOM FARMSINC — $25,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetLITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA INC — $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRE-ESTABLISH RICHMOND INC — $25,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN — $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — $24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INC — $23,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTERFIELD FOOD BANK OUTREACH CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAGGIE WALKER COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEXTUP RVA — $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND — $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL VA INC — $16,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Family Services Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION — $12,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT — $10,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Place of Miracles Inc — $10,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetMEDICAL HOME PLUS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJacobs Chance Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetBACKPACK BUDDIES FOUNDATION OF LOUDOUN INC — $10,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND FIT4KIDS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEmergency Shelter Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLAND SCHOOL INC — $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC — $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGE DISCOVERY PROJECTS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCADENCE THEATRE COMPANY INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetADOPTION RHODE ISLAND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSeven Loaves Services Inc — $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Herndon FoundationRobins FoundationCarmax FoundationShelton H Short Jr Tr…Dominion Energy Chari…The Pauley Family Fou…Tr R & Ct Gwathmey Me…Virginia Nonprofit Ho…Richmond Memorial Hea…The Mary Morton Parso…The William H - John …
The Community Foundation IncVA58.8× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Herndon Foundation · Robins Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Tr R & Ct Gwathmey Mem Uw Egj · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Freeman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Freeman Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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