Washington, D.C. · 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.
- $702k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Freeman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 | 21 | $652k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $670k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $499k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $442k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $452k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $455k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance for Full Acceptance | $720,000 | 6 | 41% |
| Campaign For Southern Equality | $385,000 | 6 | 3% |
| We Are Family | $225,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Southern Vision Alliance | $160,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Freedom Center for Social Justice | $155,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Youth Outright Wnc Inc | $145,000 | 6 | 12% |
| Equality Nc Foundation | $142,500 | 6 | 4% |
| National Lgbtq Task Force | $142,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Planned Parenthood Southeast Inc | $121,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Gender Benders | $80,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($413k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Freeman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 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: Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Laughing Gull Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Ford Foundation · Wild Geese Foundation Inc · Arcus Foundation · Groundswell Fund · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc
How this is measured
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About Freeman Foundation
- How much does Freeman Foundation give?
- Freeman Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $702,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Freeman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (66%), Youth Development (12%), Health (7%).
- Who are Freeman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Alliance for Full Acceptance ($720k), Campaign For Southern Equality ($385k), We Are Family ($225k).
- Does Freeman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% 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 Tides Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Proteus Fund Inc.
- Where is Freeman Foundation based?
- Freeman Foundation is based in DC.
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