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The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
61
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$12MEducation$2.3MHealth$2.0MYouth Development$2.0MHuman Services$1.5MRecreation & Sports$1.1MPhilanthropy$640kFood & Nutrition$575kOther$0
02FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $615k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $499k
  • $250k+1 grant · $3.5M
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$116M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION$3,516,310
FACES OF MONTGOMERY CO$152,500
SCOTLAND AME ZION CHURCH$125,000
FACES OF SUSSEX CO$107,500
MONTGOMERY CO BEEF 4-H CLUB$59,324
JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION$55,000
GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$35,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$28,000
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$25,000
OLNEY THEATER$25,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN SHORE$25,000
ATHLETES FOR HOPE$25,000
DC SCORES$21,740
FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE$21,500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$20,000
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 (FY17–25, $608k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LEGACY REFUGE: $10k → 6%CARINGMATTERS: $11k → 8%HOMELESS CHILDRENS PLAYTIME PROJECT INC: $5k → 14%HOSPICE CARING INC: $10k → 8%HOMES NOT BORDERS: $5k → 11%CLOTHING OUR KIDS: $12k → 10%CLOTHING OUR KIDS: $10k → 10%CLOTHING OUR KIDS: $8k → 10%HOSPICE CARING INC: $5k → 8%CLOTHING OUR KIDS: $7k → 10%AMERICAN MUSLIM SENIOR SOCIETY: $10k → 8%CLOTHING OUR KIDS: $7k → 10%CLOTHING OUR KIDS: $6k → 10%CARINGMATTERS: $5k → 8%DELAWARE HOSPICE INC (INCL WILMINGTON): $10k → 10%SPANISH SPEAKING COMMUNITY OF MD INC: $10k → 8%MARY'S CENTER: $10k → 8%SPANISH SPEAKING COMMUNITY OF MD INC: $10k → 8%COVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON: $10k → 14%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $15k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $15k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $15k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $15k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $10k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $10k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $10k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $10k → 8%FUTURE LINK INC: $10k → 8%FUTURE LINK INC: $10k → 8%BARBARA K BROOKS TRANSITION HOUSE INC: $11k → 10%SHEPHERD'S OFFICE INC: $10k → 10%BARBARA K BROOKS TRANSITION HOUSE INC: $9k → 10%SHEPHERD'S OFFICE INC: $8k → 10%PRIMEROS PASOS INC: $7k → 10%PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS INC: $6k → 10%SHEPHERD'S OFFICE INC: $6k → 10%PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS INC: $6k → 10%DC DIAPER BANK: $8k → 14%HERO DOGS INC: $10k → 8%HERO DOGS INC: $8k → 8%DELMARVA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE: $10k → 10%MID-COUNTY UNITED MINISTRIES: $10k → 8%COURT WATCH MONTGOMERY: $10k → 8%COMMUNITY BRIDGES INC: $10k → 8%COURT WATCH MONTGOMERY: $10k → 8%COURT WATCH MONTGOMERY: $10k → 8%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $8k → 8%COMMUNITY MINISTRIES OF ROCKVILLE: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
TN
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 236 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

236 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 199 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

236
250

Total granted

$26M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+19%

Still filing today

62%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $634k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • JM
    JOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.3M · revenue +255%
  • FA
    FREEMAN ARTS PAVILION INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $6.7M · revenue +48% · 89% of their budget
  • LS
    LANDON SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • NA
    NATIONAL ARCHIVES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +80%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $183k
  • MH
    MEDSTAR HEALTH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +54%
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
Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.

Health
2
Delaware Center for Justice

The delaware center for justice, inc. seeks to ensure an effective, efficient, and equitable system of justice in delaware through advocacy, direct services, research and public education.

Crime & Legal
3
Delaware Prosperity Partnership Inc

To lead the state of delaware's economic development efforts.

Community Improvement
4
The Arc Baltimore Inc

The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.

Human Services
5
Maryland New Directions Inc

Maryland new directions' mission is to train and coach people facing career and life transitions to overcome barriers, restore self-belief, and acquire the skills and tools needed to secure employment on a path to a living wage.

Health
6
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

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7
Moveable Feast Inc

Moveable feast's mission is to improve the health of marylanders experiencing food insecurity and chronic illness by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals and providing nutrition education, thereby achieving racial, social, and…

—
8
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

—
9
Abilities Network Inc

Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health
10
Meals On Wheels of Central Marylandinc

Meals on wheels of central maryland's charitable mission, to keep homebound people living safely and independently at home through the provision of nutritious meals, personal contact and support services, reduces hospitalization, and…

Food & Nutrition
11
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
12
Thrive Dc

Thrive dc works to prevent and end homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals with a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Washington Ear Inc. 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

299 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. 299 of the 515 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
88
Early backer (in before they grew)
292/299
Grantees still filing
223/299
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION: $7,319,310 · Arts & CultureJOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATIONFREEMAN ARTS PAVILION INC: $6,660,000 · Arts & CultureFREEMAN ARTS PAVILION INCNATIONAL LINKS TRUST: $610,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $959,500 · Arts & Culture+14 moreDWDOC LLC: $355,000 · OtherDWDOC LLCIndividual grant recipient: $335,000 · OtherCAMP ARROWHEAD (DIOCESAN COUNCIL INC): $317,000 · OtherKENNEDY CENTER (THE): $284,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $228,000 · Other+116 more: $4,845,686 · Other+116 moreLANDON SCHOOL: $1,746,500 · EducationLANDON SCHOO…THE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL: $805,000 · EducationTHE HOLTON A…+13 more: $533,573 · Education+13 moreBEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $836,325 · HealthMEDSTAR HEALTH INC: $150,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $110,050 · HealthCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $106,000 · HealthHEAD STRONG PROJECT INC: $90,000 · HealthBAYHEALTH FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $75,000 · Health+9 more: $265,500 · HealthBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $100,000 · Human ServicesClothing Our Kids Inc: $53,000 · Human ServicesBARBARA K BROOKS TRANSITION HOUSE: $31,784 · Human ServicesCARINGMATTERS INC: $31,234 · Human ServicesFUTURE LINK INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesGREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $30,000 · Human ServicesCourt Watch Montgomery Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesOLNEY HELP INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 · Human ServicesShepherds Office Inc: $23,810 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS TO SUCCESS INC: $21,210 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN DELAWARE INC: $20,270 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC COALITION FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Bridges Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesRED WIGGLER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSPANISH-SPEAKING COMMUNITY OF MARYLAND INC: $20,000 · Human Services+3 more: $48,100 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $270,000 · PhilanthropyDELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $43,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · PhilanthropyMONUMENTAL SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $12,500 · PhilanthropyWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $75,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS: $50,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $25,000 · InternationalBest Buddies International Inc: $17,500 · InternationalHELLENIC INITIATIVE INC: $15,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DELAWARE INC: $11,000 · International
Arts & Culture$15,548,810Other$6,364,686Education$3,085,073Health$1,632,875Human Services$554,408Philanthropy$380,500International$293,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION: $7,319,310 over 9y, 20% of budgetFREEMAN ARTS PAVILION INC: $6,660,000 over 3y, 89% of budgetLANDON SCHOOL: $1,746,500 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetBEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $836,325 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetTHE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL: $805,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL LINKS TRUST: $610,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $270,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ARCHIVES FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $228,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $182,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHALCYON HOUSE: $160,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH WORKS: $137,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCREATIVE TIME INC: $120,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetATHLETES FOR HOPE: $112,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $110,050 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $106,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $100,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $98,013 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEAD STRONG PROJECT INC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMIDDLEBURG FILM FESTIVAL: $77,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetBAYHEALTH FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $75,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC: $71,600 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $70,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNANTICOKE INDIAN ASSOCATION INC: $60,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetOLNEY THEATRE CORPORATION INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Good Fund: $60,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWRESTLING TO BEAT THE STREETS DC: $59,500 over 4y, 20% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $57,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHARRY K FOUNDATION: $57,200 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $56,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCITYDANCE ENSEMBLE INC: $55,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTHE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetClothing Our Kids Inc: $53,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetNOURISH NOW FOUNDATION INC: $52,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSUSSEX COUNTY LAND FOUNDATION INC T/A SUSSEX COUNTY LAND TRUST: $50,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetLA RED HEALTH CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $43,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON BALLET: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDEVON C RUBENSTEIN FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 8.6% 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 JOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FREEMAN ARTS PAVILION INC ↗
  • Who funds LANDON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL LINKS TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ARCHIVES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HALCYON HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDSTAR HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH WORKS ↗
  • Who funds CREATIVE TIME INC ↗
  • Who funds ATHLETES FOR HOPE ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLEBURG FILM FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds BAYHEALTH FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN 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.

Delaware Community Fo…Longwood Foundation I…Clark-Winchcole Found…Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…Welfare Foundation IncHealthcare Initiative…United Way of DelawareLaffey-McHugh Foundat…Chichester Dupont Fou…Franklin P and Arthur…Crestlea Foundation I…
Delaware Community Foundation IncDE96.9× affinity64 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Welfare Foundation Inc · Healthcare Initiative Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation 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 Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 410%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Nanticoke Indian Assocation Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Family Promise of Southern Delaware Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Ocean View Historical Society: 100% of income from government
  • Pathways to Success Inc: 95% of income from government
  • Selbyville Public Library: 95% of income from government
  • Contact Lifeline Inc: 86% of income from government
  • Historic Lewes Farmers Market Society Inc: 81% of income from government
  • Delaware Adolescent Program Inc: 76% of income from government
  • Center for the Inland Bays Inc: 59% of income from government
  • Art Works for All Inc: 56% of income from government
  • La Red Health Center Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Read-Aloud Delaware Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Primeros Pasos Inc: 38% of income from government
  • The Rosa Health Center Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Literacy Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Conservancy Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Food Bank of Delaware Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Medstar Health Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Joshua M Freeman Foundation: 20% of income from government
  • La Esperanza Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Sandy Spring Museum Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Mobile Medical Care Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Delaware Nature Society Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Kent-Sussex Industries Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Delaware Community Foundation Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Camp Barnes Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Spanish-Speaking Community of Maryland Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Rehoboth Art League Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Living Classrooms Foundation: 7% of income from government
  • The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Zoe Ministries Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Delaware Sports Commission Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Bayhealth Foundation Corporation: 4% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Interfaith Works: 4% of income from government
  • Action Youth Media Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Cape Henlopen Educational Fund: 3% of income from government
  • Leadership Delaware Inc: 3% of income from government
  • West Side New Beginnings Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Arts for the Aging Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Harry K Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • Beebe Medical Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • Delaware Hospice Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Bender Jcc of Greater Washington: 1% of income from government
  • The Greater Lewes Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Olney Theatre Corporation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
41get no government money at all
60report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
11rely 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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Find your warmest path to The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc 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 515 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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