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Freitas Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k18 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARIN WALDORF SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND | $10,000 |
| MARIN WALDORF SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SAN GERONIMO VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| ST MARYS COLLEGE RUGBY | $5,000 |
| BAY AREA CENTER FOR WALDORF TEACHER TRAINING | $5,000 |
| WEST MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| DOWN SYNDROME CONNECTION OF BAY AREA | $5,000 |
| BAY AREA CENTER FOR WALDORF TEACHER TRAINING | $5,000 |
| PACHAMAMA PATH | $5,000 |
| WEST MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| RIVER OF WORDS | $5,000 |
| WEST MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $3,000 |
| CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PEACE | $3,000 |
| WEAVING EARTH | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 18% 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 +58% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 17 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- SGSan Geronimo Valley Community Center8× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +61%
- MWMARIN WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $116k · revenue +31%
- CICOMMUNITY INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY6× · 2017–2023 · $65k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- SPSAINT PHILIP'S CHURCH - FOOD BANKone grant, 2023 · $40k
- SPST PHILIPS FOOD PROGRAMone grant, 2019 · $25k
- SPST PHILIP'S FOODone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
We connect community members to advocate for social and environmental justice for all to thrive. We accomplish our mission through the provision of services in the areas of Community Resilience, Youth & Families, Basic Needs Support, and…
Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Senior Access's mission is to help Marin's older and disabled adults remain independent and part of the community for as long as possible.
Marin Advocates mission is to prevent abuse and to advocate for the best interest of children.
Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…
The mission of Marin Ventures is to serve adults with developmental disabilities by fostering independence, personal growth, and promoting the opportunity for community integration based upon individual need.Marin Ventures is an Adult…
Child advocacy and educational programs for preschool aged children.
The mission of the agricultural institute of marin is to educate, inspire, and connect communities, farmers, and producers in order to create a healthy, earth-friendly, equitable local and regional food and agricultural system.
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monument Crisis Center and the most unlike its peers is Awhs Falcon Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 89 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 San Geronimo Valley Community Center ↗
- Who funds MARIN WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY ↗
- Who funds West Marin Senior Services ↗
- Who funds PACHAMAMAS PATH INC ↗
- Who funds WEST MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTER BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training ↗
- Who funds Extrafood ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds Marin History Museum ↗
- Who funds TRIPS FOR KIDS MARIN ↗
- Who funds MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds THE WEST MARIN FUND ↗
- Who funds SHININGCARE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · The West Marin Fund · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · McNabb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Patty and Jack Wright Foundation · The Rock Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · The Litchfield 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 Freitas 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.
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