Ohio · Private foundation
Freeman 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.
- $465k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 31
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations Freeman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $465k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $450k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $400k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $245k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $59k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock It Out Inc | $150,000 | 4 | 33% |
| Cleveland Zoological Society | $90,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Community Catalyst Partners | $70,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Magnolia Clubhouse Inc | $60,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Case Western Reserve University | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Edwins Foundation | $50,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Ideastream | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cleveland Center for Arts and Technology | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Cleveland Music School Settlement | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($576k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Freeman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Cleveland Foundation · Treu Mart Fund · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Leonetticarlson Family Foundation · George Codrington Fdnhirtlena · Thomas H White Fdn Ta · The Abington Foundation
How this is measured
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About Freeman Foundation
- How much does Freeman Foundation give?
- Freeman Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $465,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 31 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Freeman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (22%), Education (16%), Animals (11%).
- Who are Freeman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Rock It Out Inc ($150k), Cleveland Zoological Society ($90k), Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc ($75k).
- Does Freeman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Freeman 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, Treu Mart Fund, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation.
- Where is Freeman Foundation based?
- Freeman Foundation is based in OH.
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