· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Freedom Center for Social Justice | $30,000 |
| National LGBTQ Task Force | $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 |
| Southerners on New Ground | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Freeman Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 56 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 WOODHULL FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- 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 FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds POINT OF PRIDE ↗
- Who funds HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DANCERS GROUP ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Freeman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Freeman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hope Community Center Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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