California · Private foundation
The Don & Lorraine Freeberg Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $6.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $110,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 45
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $70M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Don & Lorraine Freeberg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $367k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 43 | $6.5M | 28% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $5.8M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $4.9M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $5.3M | 52% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $4.8M | 43% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $5.7M | 49% |
| FY2019 | 40 | $4.6M | 57% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $3.2M | 56% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Give Kids the World Inc | $2,820,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $2,500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Colorado Foundation | $2,250,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Nemours Foundation | $1,908,360 | 6 | 0% |
| The Salk Institute for Biological Studies | $1,800,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $1,770,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Project Angel Heart | $1,385,709 | 8 | 7% |
| Step Up | $1,203,165 | 4 | n/a |
| Sigma Chi Building Association | $1,200,248 | 6 | 78% |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $1,010,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 115 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($14M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Don & Lorraine Freeberg Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 103 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · Henry L Guenther Foundation · Central Florida Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im
How this is measured
Compare The Don & Lorraine Freeberg Foundation with peer funders
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About The Don & Lorraine Freeberg Foundation
- How much does The Don & Lorraine Freeberg Foundation give?
- The Don & Lorraine Freeberg Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $6,518,885 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Don & Lorraine Freeberg Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (35%), Education (20%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are The Don & Lorraine Freeberg Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Give Kids the World Inc ($2.8M), Children's Hospital Los Angeles ($2.5M), University of Colorado Foundation ($2.3M).
- Does The Don & Lorraine Freeberg Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Don & Lorraine Freeberg Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Don & Lorraine Freeberg Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, The Rose Hills Foundation.
- Where is The Don & Lorraine Freeberg Foundation based?
- The Don & Lorraine Freeberg Foundation is based in CA.
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