How much does Kemper Freeman Foundation give?

Kemper Freeman Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $43,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Kemper Freeman Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Religion (14%), Health (13%).

Who are Kemper Freeman Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Bellevue Christian School ($28k), First Presbyterian Church ($20k), Kindering Center ($15k).

Does Kemper Freeman Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Kemper Freeman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Kemper Freeman Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, United Way of King County.

Where is Kemper Freeman Foundation based?

Kemper Freeman Foundation is based in WA.

Kemper Freeman Foundation

Kemper Freeman Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Kemper Freeman Foundation

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.

$44k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$6k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$55kReligion$38kHealth$33kHuman Services$24kArts & Culture$20kPublic Benefit$13kPhilanthropy$11kYouth Development$11kOther$0

02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,503

Median grant

States reached

$9k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$6,003
BELLEVUE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL	$5,503
ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$3,092
WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER	$2,763
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER	$2,724
LIFE ENRICHMENT OPTIONS	$2,500
KINDERING CENTER	$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF WA FOUNDATION	$1,783
YOUNG LIFE	$1,503
SACRED HEART CHURCH	$1,503
SPECIAL OLYMPICS	$1,503
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BELLEVUE	$1,503
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATON	$1,500
Individual grant recipient	$1,164
BELLEVUE ROTARY FOUNDATION	$1,000

02The need

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 (FY21–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$234k · 32 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$234k

$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+80%

Still filing today

63%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

BC
BELLEVUE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +40%
KC
KINDERING CENTER
6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +29%
FH
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +11%

Funded once

SH
SACRED HEART SCHOOL
one grant, 2020 · $3k
UO
UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND
one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +16%
SJ
ST JAMES CATHEDRAL
one grant, 2024 · $2k

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.

Bellevue College Foundation

Bellevue college foundation brings together people and resources across the community to invest in bc students, faculty, and staff to realize their goals and dreams.

Education

The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education

Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development

Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc

To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.

Arts & Culture

University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

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Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment

Seattle Public Library Foundation

The seattle public library foundation inspires the community's philanthropic support, advocacy for, and pride in the library.

Education

Life Science Washington

Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…

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Seattle Children's Hospital

Seattle children's hospital (seattle children's) will be an innovative leader in pediatric health and wellness through our unsurpassed quality, clinical care, relentless spirit of inquiry, and compassion for all children and their…

Health

Bellevue Youth Symphony Orchestra

Bellevue youth symphony orchestra enhances the lives of student musicians by providing dynamic musical experiences, fostering collaboration, confidence, and personal responsibility through the pursuit of artistic excellence.

Arts & Culture

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc

The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Seattle Homeless Outreach. 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

30 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. 30 of the 46 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/30

Grantees still filing

23/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$187,180Education$20,488Arts & Culture$15,450Civil Rights$13,013Philanthropy$9,634Youth Development$9,323Environment$6,839

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.

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.

Seattle FoundationWA33.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · United Way of King County · Lucky Seven Foundation · Sos Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Orcas Bay Foundation · Glasser Family Fund · Thanksgiving Foundation Bessemer Trust Company Na · Ash Family 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 Kemper Freeman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kemper Freeman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

9report 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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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