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Freeman Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$58k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$194kYouth Development$159kEducation$107kReligion$65kArts & Culture$46kPublic Benefit$20kHealth$14kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
$4,537
Median grant
2
States reached
$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $104k → 6%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $50k → 6%CANINE ASSISTANTS: $250 → 13%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $29k → 6%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $5k → 6%GEORGIA CAMPAIGN FOR ADOLESCENT POWER & POTENTIAL (GCAPP): $18k → 13%GEORGIA CAMPAIGN FOR ADOLESCENT POWER & POTENTIAL (GCAPP): $13k → 13%GEORGIA CAMPAIGN FOR ADOLESCENT POWER & POTENTIAL (GCAPP): $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$566k · 16 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
20

Total granted

$566k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+26%

Still filing today

63%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GC
    Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc
    4× · 2019–2024 · $83k · revenue +57%
  • TW
    The Westminster Schools Inc
    5× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +43%
  • RW
    ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $46k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WESTMINSTER FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue -9%
  • TG
    THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +264%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
2
Georgia Alliance for Breast Cancer F/K/a It's the Journey

Georgia alliance for breast cancer mission is to engage with georgia's breast cancer community to increase access to care and reduce disparities in cancer outcomes.

Health
3
Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures Inc

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…

Education
4
Acmg Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine

Support the american college of medical genetics and genomics' (acmg) educational mission to "translate genes into health" by raising funds to attract the next generation of medical geneticists and genetic counselors, to sponsor important…

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5
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
9
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

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10
Girls on the Run Georgia Inc

Girls on the Run Georgia empowers girls with vital social-emotional skills to help them succeed in school, at home, and within friendships. Our programs, Girls on the Run (3rd-5th grade) and Heart & Sole (6th-8th grade) are taught by…

Youth Development
11
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Inc

The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…

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12
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $188,575 · Human ServicesCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INCGeorgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc: $82,750 · Human ServicesGeorgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potentia…+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesST DAVIDS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $50,500 · OtherST DAVIDS EPISCOPAL C…THE WESTMINSTER FUND: $20,000 · OtherTHE WESTMINSTER FUNDCATHEDRAL OF ST PHILIP: $14,010 · OtherCATHEDRAL OF ST PHILI…UNC KENAN FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherUNC KENAN FLAGLER BUS…Piedmont Park Conservancy Inc: $5,250 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO ATLANTA (BGCMA): $4,537 · Other+12 more: $11,800 · Other+12 moreThe Westminster Schools Inc: $51,250 · EducationThe Westminster S…DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $21,000 · EducationDELTA GAMMA FOUND…Atlanta Speech School Inc: $15,250 · EducationAtlanta Speech Sc…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · Education+3 more: $2,600 · EducationBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $70,600 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls …+1 more: $100 · Youth DevelopmentROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $46,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $350 · Arts & CultureBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $12,500 · HealthNATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC: $500 · Health+2 more: $350 · HealthTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Human Services$271,575Other$116,097Education$94,100Youth Development$70,700Arts & Culture$46,350Health$13,350Philanthropy$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $188,575 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetGeorgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc: $82,750 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $70,600 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc: $51,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $46,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $15,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPiedmont Park Conservancy Inc: $5,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEAP FOR LITERACY: $1,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTH COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRONTLINE MENS MINISTRY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTT HAMILTON CARES FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE ASSISTANTS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFernbank Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST PRESBYTERIAN PRESCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Raymond James Charita…The Community Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL12.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Freeman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Freeman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Freeman Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Freeman Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 38 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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