· Private foundation
John and Sarah Freeman Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE | $101,500 |
| OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS EACH LESS THAN 5000 | $27,500 |
| BARKER FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| LEWES PUBLIC LIBRARY | $12,000 |
| PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| LEWES HISTORY BOOK FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| ST ANNE'S-BELFIELD SCHOOL | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SBSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $642k · revenue +2%
- TBThe Barker Adoption Foundation7× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +33%
- TLTHE LEWES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC3× · 2018–2023 · $41k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- PMPENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museumone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +21%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Barker Adoption Foundation ↗
- Who funds PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEWES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds LEWES PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds The Writers Center ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John and Sarah Freeman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Sarah Freeman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lewes Public Library Inc: 27% of income from government
- The Writers Center: 6% of income from government
- The Lewes Historical Society Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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