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The Freedom Forum Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$465k
Granted FY2024still arriving
93
Grants FY2024still arriving
27
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$52MCivil Rights$28MEducation$537kPublic Benefit$87kHuman Services$81kHealth$80kInternational$75kCrime & Legal$53kOther$0
02FY2024 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k78 grants · $225k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $240k
$2,500
Median grant
27
States reached
$650M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AND FOUNDATION$25,000
DOW JONES NEWS FUND$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION$25,000
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION$25,000
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER$25,000
HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION$15,000
INSITUTE FOR EDUCATION$10,000
EAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA$10,000
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER$10,000
FOOLPROOF FOUNDATION$10,000
HEALTH FIRST FOUNDATION INC$10,000
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION$10,000
THE CORNELL DAILY SUN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$10,000
PELETAH MINISTRIES$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%SAFE FUTURES: $6k → 9%JAMES FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%SOUTH BREVARD SHARING CENTER: $1k → 10%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $5k → 8%JAMES FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%SOUTH BREVARD SHARING CENTER: $1k → 10%THE JAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%TICONDEROGA AREA BACKPACK PROGRAM: $1k → 13%TICONDEROGA AREA BACKPACK PROGRAM: $1k → 13%TICONDEROGA AREA BACKPACK PROGRAM: $1k → 13%SILVER BAY ASSOCIATION: $3k → 13%SILVER BAY ASSOCIATION: $2k → 13%AGING MATTERS: $6k → 10%AGING MATTERS: $5k → 10%AGING MATTERS IN BREVARD: $3k → 10%SOUTH BREVARD WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $3k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY OF BREVARD INC: $1k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY OF BREVARD INC: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$81M · 82 repeat orgs$361k to everyone else

82 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
111

Total granted

$81M
$250k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+16%

Still filing today

61%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementAnimalsFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • NC
    NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $120k · revenue +254%
  • IW
    INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $78k · revenue +11%
  • DJ
    DOW JONES NEWS FUND INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $70k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • OO
    ONLY ONE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +15%
  • CR
    CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -18%
  • NM
    NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC)
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -23%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
6
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
10
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
11
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
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Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fordham University and the most unlike its peers is Dow Jones News Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity College Foundatio…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Independent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesCommunity Arts CentersDomestic Violence ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr18%15%20–35yr16%22%35–55yr15%46%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr18%17%20–35yr16%35%35–55yr15%32%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/158
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,843

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

141 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 141 of the 237 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
138/141
Grantees still filing
93/141
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEWSEUM INC — $51,810,161 · OtherNEWSEUM INCFREEDOM FORUM INSTITUTE INC — $28,006,954 · OtherFREEDOM FORUM INSTITUTE INC+119 more — $744,570 · OtherNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER — $120,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION — $78,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC) — $10,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHELOSTCHURCHORG INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $35,500 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION — $55,000 · EducationUND Alumni Association and Foundation — $45,000 · EducationSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationVanderbilt University — $17,000 · EducationTHE GRIDIRON CLUB AND FOUNDATION — $12,000 · EducationTHE CORNELL DAILY SUN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $11,000 · EducationCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Education+41 more — $98,000 · EducationSPACE COAST PRIDE INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesJAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL OF BREVARD COUNTY INC — $13,500 · Human ServicesSafe Futures Inc — $6,000 · Human ServicesSILVER BAY ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN CONFERENCES AND TRAINING — $5,000 · Human ServicesThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) — $5,000 · Human ServicesTICONDEROGA AREA BACKPACK PROGRAM INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH BREVARD WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $2,500 · Human Services+2 more — $4,000 · Human ServicesHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL — $65,000 · InternationalCASA CHILDRENS INTERVENTION SERVICES INC — $40,000 · Civil RightsStart Empowerment Inc — $7,500 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION — $35,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 · Health
Other$80,561,685Arts & Culture$293,500Education$273,000Human Services$69,000International$65,000Civil Rights$47,500Health$40,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEWSEUM INC — $51,810,161 over 5y, 79% of budgetFREEDOM FORUM INSTITUTE INC — $28,006,954 over 6y, 99% of budgetNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER — $120,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION — $78,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDOW JONES NEWS FUND INC — $70,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL — $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUND Alumni Association and Foundation — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASA CHILDRENS INTERVENTION SERVICES INC — $40,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION — $35,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetTHE FOOLPROOF FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST VINCENT DEPAUL MIDDLETOWN — $19,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVanderbilt University — $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC — $16,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetREBIRTH AND DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED — $15,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL OF BREVARD COUNTY INC — $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRIDIRON CLUB AND FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTHE CORNELL DAILY SUN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $11,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetSurfside Players Inc — $10,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetONLY ONE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation for Traditional Studies — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC) — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHELOSTCHURCHORG INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPROMISE INC — $9,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNC HUSSMAN SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND MEDIA FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAMLIN SCHOOL — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA OPERA — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTERNE SCHOOL — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStart Empowerment Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNorthwestern University — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSafe Futures Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBREVARD ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPride of Ticonderoga Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER BAY ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN CONFERENCES AND TRAINING — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Community Foundation …United Way of Brevard…Youngbaum Foundation …The Margaret Heins Fo…Embraer Foundation IncMargaret R Binz Found…Jim and Jonnie Swann …Sioux Falls Area Comm…Cloudsplitter Foundat…South Dakota Communit…Sheldon F Reese Found…Ge Aerospace Foundati…
Community Foundation for Brevard IncFL32.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Brevard Inc · United Way of Brevard County Inc · Youngbaum Foundation Inc · The Margaret Heins Foundation · Embraer Foundation Inc · Margaret R Binz Foundation Inc · Jim and Jonnie Swann Corp · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Cloudsplitter Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · Sheldon F Reese Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Freedom Forum Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • South Brevard Women's Center Inc — 45% of income from government
  • A Safe Place Inc — 45% of income from government
  • Brevard Achievement Center Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Presencing Institute Inc — 28% of income from government
  • Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • St Vincent Depaul Middletown — 6% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Community Services Council of Brevard County Inc — 2% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
  • Bentley University — 1% of income from government
  • United Way of Brevard County Inc — 1% of income from government
  • East Coast Zoological Society of Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Promise Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College — 0% of income from government
  • Central Brevard Humane Society Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Haven for Children Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
24report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 237 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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