· Private foundation
The Don & Lorraine Freeberg Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+13 grants · $4.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $500,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $500,000 |
| GIVE KIDS THE WORLD | $500,000 |
| SALK INSTITUTE | $500,000 |
| NEMOURS FOUNDATION (NEMOURS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IN ORLANDO) | $442,920 |
| STEP UP | $302,165 |
| BRAILLE INSTITUTE | $275,000 |
| LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $255,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION (CENTENNIAL FOUNDERS) | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $250,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $250,000 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $250,000 |
| SCOUTING AMERICA WESTERN LA COUNTY COUNCIL | $240,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
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, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +37% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
62 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $972k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GKGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC6× · 2018–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +32%
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles5× · 2021–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +34%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +58%
Funded once
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +19%
- SGSAN GABRIEL VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2017 · $272k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - SAN GABRIELone grant, 2019 · $267k
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.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
Unicamp student volunteers harness the healing power of the wilderness to provide a unique outdoor camping experience for at-risk children. through relationship-building, leadership and character development, and just plain fun, unicamp…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
How this is measured
110 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 110 of the 161 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 GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds SIGMA CHI BUILDING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
- Who funds WESTERN LOS ANGELES COUNTY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 51 ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE FOR VETS ↗
- Who funds VERDUGO HILLS COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STRIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Foothill Family Service ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Don & Lorraine Freeberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Don & Lorraine Freeberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- United Cerebral Palsy of Central Florida Inc: 13% of income from government
- Changing Lives Academy Inc: 12% of income from government
- Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
- Covenant House Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Matthew's Hope Ministries Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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