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The Freeman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$12k
Largest
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 FY20172025.

Education$282kReligion$136kHealth$51kRecreation & Sports$31kEnvironment$10kYouth Development$3kArts & Culture$2kAnimals$361Other$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$25
Median grant
10
States reached
$586k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SVAROOPA VIDYA ASHRAM$12,000
NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL$11,000
BATES COLLEGE$5,000
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL$1,000
GIVENGAIN FOUNDATION$698
ALIVE RESCUE$361
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$55
AMERICAN RED CROSS$36
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY$36
THE PARK SCHOOL$25
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$25
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$18
JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE$18
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$18
STAND WITH US$18
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 (FY24–24, $50) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50 → 8%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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NH
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CA
DC
FL

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$500k · 16 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
9

Total granted

$500k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+3%

Still filing today

56%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
InternationalEducationRecreation & SportsCivil RightsArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $237k · revenue +9%
  • CP
    COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +72%
  • NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL
    2× · 2019–2021 · $20k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • BOSTON HARBOR NOW INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +162%
  • MU
    MACCABI USA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +16%
  • TI
    TEMPLE ISRAEL
    one grant, 2024 · $1k

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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

2
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
3
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
Clal-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc

A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.

Religion
7
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
8
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
9
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture
10
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

11
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
12
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Jewish Committee and the most unlike its peers is Courageous Parents Networkinc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%0%<5yr12%5%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr16%19%35–55yr18%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr19%37%10–20yr19%58%20–35yr16%0%35–55yr18%5%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
9%
845/9,528

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

21 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 36 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $236,975 · EducationPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGENOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL — $20,000 · EducationNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL+1 more — $50 · EducationSVAROOPA VIDYA ASHRAM — $115,000 · OtherSVAROOPA VIDYA ASHRAMFRIENDS OF BATES ATHLETICS — $30,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF BATES ATHLETICSNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL — $21,000 · OtherNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOLTEMPLE BETH AVODAH — $20,250 · OtherTEMPLE BETH AVODAHBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL — $10,000 · Other+18 more — $10,156 · OtherCOURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC — $40,300 · HealthBOSTON HARBOR NOW INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentMACCABI USA INC — $1,080 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $25 · Recreation & SportsAmerica Scores New England DBA Boston Scores — $500 · Youth DevelopmentAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $54 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $36 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $18 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC — $18 · InternationalJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA — $18 · International
Education$257,025Other$206,406Health$40,300Environment$10,000Recreation & Sports$1,105Youth Development$500International$144

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $236,975 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC — $40,300 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON HARBOR NOW INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRIGHT INVENTION INC — $2,250 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMACCABI USA INC — $1,080 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerica Scores New England DBA Boston Scores — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $110 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $54 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARK SCHOOL CORPORATION — $50 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $36 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $36 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $18 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fidelity FoundationMA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Freeman Family Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • Boston Harbor Now Inc45% of income from government
  • America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores30% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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