How much does The Alison and William W Freehling Family Foundation give?

The Alison and William W Freehling Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $4,150 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.

Who are The Alison and William W Freehling Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: The George Washington Foundation ($1k), Foxcroft School ($900), The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc ($800).

Does The Alison and William W Freehling Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2022, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Alison and William W Freehling Family 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 The Alison and William W Freehling Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ibm International Foundation, Community Foundation of the Rappahannock River Region Inc, Texas Instruments Foundation.

The Alison and William W Freehling Family Foundation

The Alison and William W Freehling Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Alison and William W Freehling Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4k

Granted FY2022

Grants FY2022

States reached

$500

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$6kEducation$4kEnvironment$2kHealth$2kAnimals$2kPhilanthropy$810Public Safety & Disaster$400Human Services$275Other$0

02FY2022 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$160

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GEORGE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION - KENMORE	$500
ST LABRE INDIAN SCHOOL	$275
METROPOLITAN OPERA GUILD	$250
YELLOWSTONE FOREVER	$250
TIGER CREEK ANIMAL SANCTUARY	$200
ST MARK'S SCHOOL	$200
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART	$200
GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY	$190
STRATFORD HALL	$175
CORPORATION FOR JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST	$175
COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION	$175
RED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOL	$160
AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS	$150
JAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION	$150
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY	$150

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 (FY20–22, $700) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of The Alison and William W Freehling Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 36% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 23%.

The Alison and William W Freehling Family Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$14k · 30 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2022, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$14k

$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+41%

Still filing today

93%

76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $775 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentAnimalsHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

TG
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +92%
Foxcroft School
2× · 2020–2021 · $900 · revenue +98%
AF
ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC
2× · 2020–2021 · $650 · revenue +7%

Funded once

NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATESgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $300 · revenue +54%
MW
MARY WASHINGTON HEALTHCARE
one grant, 2021 · $200
GE
GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $150 · revenue +34%

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.

American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

The Wildlife Society

The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

Animals

Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech

Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals

American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals

National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment

Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association

Hawk mountain sanctuary association's mission is to conserve birds of prey worldwide by providing leadership in raptor conservation science and education, and by maintaining hawk mountain sanctuary as a model observation, research, and…

Animals

Discover Life in America Inc

Dlia will develop a model for research in biodiversity and will use the knowledge to develop and disseminate information to encourage the discovery, understanding, preservation, and enjoyment of natural resources.

Environment

Science Museum of Minnesota

The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."

Arts & Culture

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…

Science & Tech

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yellowstone Forever; the most unlike its peers is John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 50 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)

43/43

Grantees still filing

31/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$4,625Education$3,125Other$3,560Environment$1,765Animals$1,415Health$1,300Philanthropy$885

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.

Ibm International FoundationNY14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · Community Foundation of the Rappahannock River Region Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 The Alison and William W Freehling Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alison and William W Freehling Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

7report 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

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The camps

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By state

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