· Private foundation
Freeman Foundation
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k21 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| GRACE CHURCH | $20,000 |
| GREAT COMMISSION BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| KIRKSVILLE ARTS ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| AT STILL UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| ADAIR CO HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| SHANNONDALE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $8,000 |
| CHILD SERVE | $5,000 |
| K-LIFE | $5,000 |
| STMARYS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF STMARYS | $2,500 |
| THE PANTRY FOR ADAIR CO | $2,000 |
| BRASHEAR HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of your 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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2020, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- CICHILDSERVE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $18k · revenue +203%
- ATA T Still University of Health Sciences2× · 2017–2020 · $15k · revenue +58%
- MVMEOW VILLAGE4× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- CCCHICAGO CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INCone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue 0%
- SASALAVATION ARMYone grant, 2018 · $10k
- ACADAIR CO R-II SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…
To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.
Specifically and primarily to provide a charitable and educational organization which will provide foster homes, veterinary care, and adoption services to animals in need of homes.
Alive's mission is to provide counseling, emergency sanctuary and other critical services to adults and children impacted by domestic abuse, as well as to increase awareness in order to create a supportive community.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Auburn valley humane society enriches the lives of companion animals and people through animal sheltering, programs, services and community engagement
To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.
Founded in 1973, dove lewis emergency animal hospital, inc. (dovelewis) is one of the premier veterinary medical service organizations in the us and the only 24/7 not-for-profit animal emergency, critical care, and specialty hospital in…
We have a no-kill mission to save the lives of homeless cats and dogs abandoned and/or placed in kill shelters, while also providing life-saving programs and services to keep pets and their people together. through outreach, education and…
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childserve Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope for the Heart. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 43 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 KIRKSVILLE ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds A T Still University of Health Sciences ↗
- Who funds ADAIR COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VICTIM SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR THE HEART ↗
- Who funds INSIGHT FOR LIVING ↗
- Who funds MEOW VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds CROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FIELD OF DREAMS RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds The American Legion ↗
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: 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
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.
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.