How much did FREEMAN FOUNDATION grant in FY2020?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 93% of FREEMAN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

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2020

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2020 · 28 grants

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

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY$100,000
KIRKSVILLE ARTS ASSOCIATION$20,000
GRACE CHURCH$20,000
GREAT COMMISSION BAPTIST CHURCH$20,000
AT STILL UNIVERSITY$10,000
ADAIR CO HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
SALVATION ARMY$10,000
SHANNONDALE COMMUNITY CHURCH$8,000
CHILD SERVE$5,000
K-LIFE$5,000
FRIENDS OF STMARYS$2,500
STMARYS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION$2,500
BRASHEAR HIGH SCHOOL$2,000
THE PANTRY FOR ADAIR CO$2,000
HOSPICE OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI$1,000

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 24% — the area typically sits at 7%. 94% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$430k · 29 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of 0% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2020, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$430k

$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-16%

Still filing today

28%

13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsReligionInternationalOther

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

C
CHILDSERVE
3× · 2017–2019 · $13k · revenue +191%
AC
ADAIR COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +106%
MV
MEOW VILLAGE
4× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +53%

Funded once

CC
CHICAGO CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP
one grant, 2018 · $20k
SA
SALAVATION ARMY
one grant, 2018 · $10k
AC
ADAIR CO R-II SCHOOL
one grant, 2017 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Hope Animal Shelter

To provide no kill shelter, adoption and care for dogs and cats.

Animals

Kansas Humane Society of Wichita Kansas

Operation of an animal shelter.

Animals

Child Hope International

We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ-centered care, training and social work.

Arts & Culture

Life International

To uphold the value of all human life worldwide.

Health

Humane Society of Southwest Missouri

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…

Animals

A Child's Hope International

To motivate and mobilize the church and community to care for the orphans and vulnerable children through adoption, foster care, orphan care and humanitarian relief.

Human Services

Animal Lifeline of Iowa Inc

A special needs, no kill animal shelter that helps cats & dogs that are injured, handicapped, have a serious medical condition, pregnant & nursing moms & orphan babies. animal lifeline provides vet care, support/rehab care & when healthy…

Animals

Hope Alive Inc

Christ-based ministry with the mission of bringing hope and encouragement with christ-like love to emotionally hurting people through mental health counseling and transitional housing for homeless women with a mental illness.

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Living Free Non-Profit Animal Sanctuary

A no kill animal sanctuary that saves and finds homes for animals facing imminent shelter euthanasia

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House of Hope Animal Rescue Inc

To rescue, maintain, and place domestic animals abandoned in kill-shelters or discarded by volume breeders and to raise funds in order to accomplish our mission.

Animals

Hearts Alive Village Inc

To nurture a compassionate society where pets are supported in their homes and on their journey to find a new home.

Animals

The Humane Society of Southeast Mo

To provide shelter, care and adoption services for animals in southeast missouri.

Animals

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.

05the grantee network

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/12

Grantees still filing

4/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$487,304Religion$22,000Animals$13,500International$500

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.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA7.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 organisation 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.

2024

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⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ADAIR COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 431078927 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ADAIR COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Freeman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Freeman Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

FREEMAN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Freeman Foundation?

More from the funding graph

FREEMAN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Freeman Foundation?

More from the funding graph