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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.

$116k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
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.

Human Services$254kEducation$244kFood & Nutrition$198kHealth$143kEnvironment$78kArts & Culture$77kPhilanthropy$38kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARIN WALDORF SCHOOL$30,000
GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND$10,000
SAN GERONIMO VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
MARIN WALDORF SCHOOL$10,000
ST MARYS COLLEGE RUGBY$5,000
WEST MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICES$5,000
RIVER OF WORDS$5,000
BAY AREA CENTER FOR WALDORF TEACHER TRAINING$5,000
DOWN SYNDROME CONNECTION OF BAY AREA$5,000
PACHAMAMA PATH$5,000
WEST MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICES$5,000
BAY AREA CENTER FOR WALDORF TEACHER TRAINING$5,000
CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PEACE$3,000
WEST MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICES$3,000
WEAVING EARTH$2,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WEST MARIN SENIOR SERVICES: $15k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 10%WEST MARIN SENIOR SERVICES: $10k → 8%WEST MARIN SENIOR SERVICES: $10k → 8%WEST MARIN SENIOR SERVICES: $5k → 8%WEST MARIN SENIOR SERVICES: $5k → 8%WEST MARIN SENIOR SERVICES: $4k → 8%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $3k → 9%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $5k → 9%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $1k → 9%LITTLE WISHES: $3k → 8%PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 8%CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PEACE: $3k → 8%CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PEACE: $2k → 8%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$852k · 31 repeat orgs$280k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
55

Total granted

$852k
$269k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+22%

Still filing today

65%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
Human ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • SG
    San Geronimo Valley Community Center
    8× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +61%
  • MW
    MARIN WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $116k · revenue +31%
  • CI
    COMMUNITY INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY
    6× · 2017–2023 · $65k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • SP
    SAINT PHILIP'S CHURCH - FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • SP
    ST PHILIPS FOOD PROGRAM
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • SP
    ST PHILIP'S FOOD
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
Transportation Alternatives for Marin
Public Benefit
2
Marin Academy

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.

Education
3
The Multicultural Center of Marin

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…

Human Services
4
Marin Open Studios

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
6
Senior Access

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.

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7
Marin Advocates for Children

Marin Advocates mission is to prevent abuse and to advocate for the best interest of children.

—
8
Terra Marin School

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…

Education
9
Marin Ventures

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…

Human Services
10
Marin Mountain School

Child advocacy and educational programs for preschool aged children.

Unclassified
11
Agricultural Institute of Marin

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.

Environment
12
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monument Crisis Center; 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.
04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 89 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
30/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

San Geronimo Valley Community Center: $132,120 · OtherSan Geronimo Valley Community CenterMARIN WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $116,000 · OtherMARIN WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCST PHILLIPS FOOD BANK: $75,000 · OtherST PHILLIPS FOOD BANKRIVER OF WORDS: $72,500 · OtherRIVER OF WORDSCOMMUNITY INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY: $65,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPYCATHOLIC CHARITIESST VINCENTS: $53,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESST VINCENTSSAINT PHILIP'S CHURCH - FOOD BANK: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · Other+58 more: $310,850 · Other+58 moreWest Marin Senior Services: $49,000 · Human ServicesMONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $8,500 · Human ServicesPETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesCenter for Domestic Peace: $4,500 · Human ServicesLITTLE WISHES: $2,500 · Human ServicesBay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training: $16,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $15,000 · EducationSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $8,000 · EducationWest Marin Scholarship Program: $3,500 · EducationSHIKABANIA CORPORATION: $3,000 · EducationAWHS FALCON FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationWEST MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $32,000 · PhilanthropyGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE WEST MARIN FUND: $6,000 · PhilanthropyPACHAMAMAS PATH INC: $34,000 · Arts & CultureMESA REFUGE A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMarin Museum of Contemporary Art: $2,713 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $2,500 · Arts & CultureDANCE PALACE: $2,000 · Arts & CultureBRIGHTER BEGINNINGS: $19,000 · HealthExtrafood: $15,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$894,470Human Services$74,500Education$48,500Philanthropy$48,000Arts & Culture$46,213Health$19,000Food & Nutrition$16,000

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 budgetSan Geronimo Valley Community Center: $132,120 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetMARIN WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $116,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY: $65,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetWest Marin Senior Services: $49,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetPACHAMAMAS PATH INC: $34,000 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetWEST MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $32,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBRIGHTER BEGINNINGS: $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training: $16,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetExtrafood: $15,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRIPS FOR KIDS MARIN: $8,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $8,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WEST MARIN FUND: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHININGCARE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMESA REFUGE A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMARIN COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWEAVING EARTH INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCenter for Domestic Peace: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWest Marin Scholarship Program: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAWHS FALCON FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMarin Museum of Contemporary Art: $2,713 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDON MOYER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE WISHES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDANCE PALACE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORINDA LIBRARY INC: $1,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY MARIN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEGAL AID OF MARIN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOLAKOTA WALDORF SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOKIZU FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $750 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Extrafood ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Marin History Museum ↗
  • Who funds GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
  • 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 NORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP ↗

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.

Marin Community Found…Leonard & Beryl Buck …The West Marin FundHobsonlucas Family Fo…The San Francisco Fou…Kaiser Foundation Hos…McNabb FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Patty and Jack Wright…The Rock FoundationHeffernan Group Found…The Litchfield Founda…
Marin Community FoundationCA36.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Freitas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Freitas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Freitas Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Freitas Foundation 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 89 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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