· Private foundation
Freeman Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| GEORGIA CAMPAIGN FOR ADOLESCENT POWER & POTENTIAL (GCAPP) | $12,500 |
| ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| UNC KENAN FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO ATLANTA (BGCMA) | $4,537 |
| ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC | $3,200 |
| PIEDMONT PARK CONSERVANCY | $1,500 |
| CATHEDRAL OF ST PHILIP | $1,010 |
| FERNBANK MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $250 |
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 (FY18–24, $224k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- GCGeorgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc4× · 2019–2024 · $83k · revenue +57%
- TWThe Westminster Schools Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +43%
- RWROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC5× · 2019–2024 · $46k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- TWTHE WESTMINSTER FUNDone grant, 2022 · $20k
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue -9%
- TGTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +264%
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 make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc and the most unlike its peers is Milton High School Soccer Booster Club 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 42 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 38 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 CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds LEAP FOR LITERACY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTH COASTAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRONTLINE MENS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Fernbank Inc ↗
- Who funds SCOTT HAMILTON CARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE ASSISTANTS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRESBYTERIAN PRESCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Milton High School Soccer Booster Club Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
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: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Inc 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.
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