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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $382k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Campaign for Southern Equality | $100,000 |
| Alliance for Full Acceptance | $90,000 |
| We Are Family | $60,000 |
| Proteus Fund | $50,000 |
| Alliance for Full Acceptance | $40,000 |
| ACLU of South Carolina | $40,000 |
| Youth OUTright | $35,000 |
| Equality North Carolina Foundation | $32,500 |
| National LGBTQ Task Force | $30,000 |
| Freedom Center for Social Justice | $30,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of the Southeast | $30,000 |
| Harriet Hancock Center | $25,000 |
| Woodhull Freedom Foundation | $20,000 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs | $17,500 |
| Transgender Awareness Alliance | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Freeman Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AFALLIANCE FOR FULL ACCEPTANCE6× · 2020–2025 · $720k · revenue +45% · 41% of their budget
- CFCampaign For Southern Equality6× · 2020–2025 · $385k · revenue +128%
- WAWE ARE FAMILY6× · 2020–2025 · $225k · revenue +737%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $25k
- MTMe Too International Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +186%
- USUSC School of Medicine Greenvilleone grant, 2023 · $17k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.
Transgender Law Center TLC changes law, policy and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.
Securing equality and justice for lgbtq north carolinians.
Global Philanthropy Project (GPP or the Organization) is a collaboration of funders and philanthropic advisors working to expand global philanthropic support to advance the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex…
Southern Fried Queer Pride (SFQP) is an Atlanta-based non-profit organization empowering Black queer and QTPOC (queer and trans people of color) centered communities in the South through arts & culture.
Maximize equlity in trans community
LGBTQ Victory Institute works to achieve and sustain equality through leadership development, trainings, research and convenings. We work around the globe to increase the number, expand the diversity, and ensure the success of out LGBTQ+…
Girls for gender equity (gge) works intergenerationally, through a black feminist lens, to achieve gender and racial justice by centering the leadership of black girls and gender-expansive young people of color to reshape culture and…
EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.
Working together as a community to empower Trans People of Color by meeting needs and increasing accessibility
National lgbtq task force action fund, founded in 1974 as the national gay and lesbian task force, inc., works to build the grassroots political power of the lgbt community to win complete equality. we do this through direct and grassroots…
The mission of the atlanta pride committee is to advance unity, visibility, and wellness among persons with widely diverse gender and sexual identities through cultural, social, political, and educational program activities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Lgbtq Task Force and the most unlike its peers is Carribean Equality Project Inc. 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
38 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. 38 of the 56 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR FULL ACCEPTANCE ↗
- Who funds Campaign For Southern Equality ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WE ARE FAMILY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Freedom Center for Social Justice ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OUTRIGHT WNC INC ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY NC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds GENDER BENDERS ↗
- Who funds Rockwood Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds Time Out Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds WOODHULL FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRANS HOUSING ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA HARM REDUCTION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA BLACK PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds HARRIET HANCOCK CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Me Too International Inc ↗
- Who funds FUNDERS FOR LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES INC DBA FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES ↗
- Who funds POINT OF PRIDE ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds DANCERS GROUP ↗
- Who funds HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
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.
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
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 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.
- Hope Community Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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