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Freeman Foundation

$226k
Granted FY2020
28
Grants FY2020
28
Organizations funded FY2020
21%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
24 to 28
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
10

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 21% of the organizations Freeman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
AnimalsReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202028$226k21%
FY201924$91k0%
FY201827$115k33%
FY201728$92kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Education$190kReligion$125kArts & Culture$72kHuman Services$45kAnimals$29kHealth$25kCrime & Legal$10kMembership Benefit$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
OR
IA
IN
PA
CA
CO
MO
KS
AR
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kirksville Arts Association$40,00044%
Salvation Army$30,0003n/a
Chicago Child Evangelism Fellowship Inc$20,0001n/a
Grace Church of Overland Park$20,0001n/a
Great Commission Baptist Church$20,0001n/a
Childserve Inc$17,50040%
A T Still University of Health Sciences$15,00020%
Victim Support Services Inc$10,00022%
St Marys Cemetery Association Inc$10,0004n/a
Adair County Humane Society Inc$10,00024%
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All grantees of Freeman Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kirksville Arts Association$40,00044%
Salvation Army$30,0003n/a
Chicago Child Evangelism Fellowship Inc$20,0001n/a
Grace Church of Overland Park$20,0001n/a
Great Commission Baptist Church$20,0001n/a
Childserve Inc$17,50040%
A T Still University of Health Sciences$15,00020%
Victim Support Services Inc$10,00022%
St Marys Cemetery Association Inc$10,0004n/a
Adair County Humane Society Inc$10,00024%
Special Olympics Missouri Inc$4,00040%
Hope for the Heart$2,50040%
Crown Financial Ministries Inc$2,00040%
Insight for Living$2,00040%
Meow Village$2,00040%
Focus on the Family$2,0004n/a
Field of Dreams Rescue Inc$1,50031%
The American Legion$1,00020%
Living Hope International Inc$5001n/a

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($313k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Freeman Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKirksville Arts Association: $40,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetChildserve Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetA T Still University of Health Sciences: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVictim Support Services Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAdair County Humane Society Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetSpecial Olympics Missouri Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHope for the Heart: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCrown Financial Ministries Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInsight for Living: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMeow Village: $2,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetField of Dreams Rescue Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe American Legion: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA7.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Freeman Foundation

How much does Freeman Foundation give?
Freeman Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $225,564 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Freeman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (36%), Religion (24%), Arts & Culture (14%).
Who are Freeman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Kirksville Arts Association ($40k), Salvation Army ($30k), Chicago Child Evangelism Fellowship Inc ($20k).
Does Freeman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Freeman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Endowment Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Freeman Foundation based?
Freeman Foundation is based in MO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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