Massachusetts · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $586k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations The Freeman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 20 | $30k | 55% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $34k | 64% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $25k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $83k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $94k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $153k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $35k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $30k | 20% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| President and Trustees of Bates College | $236,975 | 8 | 0% |
| Svaroopa Vidya Ashram | $115,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Courageous Parents Networkinc | $40,300 | 8 | 1% |
| Noble and Greenough School | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Boston Harbor Now Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bright Invention Inc | $2,250 | 2 | 1% |
| Maccabi USA Inc | $1,080 | 1 | 0% |
| Temple Israel | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $110 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| President and Trustees of Bates College | $236,975 | 8 | 0% |
| Svaroopa Vidya Ashram | $115,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Courageous Parents Networkinc | $40,300 | 8 | 1% |
| Noble and Greenough School | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Boston Harbor Now Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bright Invention Inc | $2,250 | 2 | 1% |
| Maccabi USA Inc | $1,080 | 1 | 0% |
| Temple Israel | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $110 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ | $54 | 2 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $50 | 1 | 0% |
| Park School Corporation | $50 | 2 | 0% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $36 | 2 | 0% |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $36 | 2 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $25 | 1 | n/a |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $18 | 1 | 0% |
| Israel Emergency Alliance | $18 | 1 | n/a |
| Hebrew Senior Life Inc | $18 | 1 | 0% |
| American Jewish Committee | $18 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish Institute for National Security of America | $18 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish National Fund-Usa Inc | $18 | 1 | n/a |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc | $18 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($88k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Freeman Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
About The Freeman Family Foundation
- How much does The Freeman Family Foundation give?
- The Freeman Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $30,398 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Freeman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (55%), Religion (26%), Health (10%).
- Who are The Freeman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: President and Trustees of Bates College ($237k), Svaroopa Vidya Ashram ($115k), Courageous Parents Networkinc ($40k).
- Does The Freeman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Freeman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Freeman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Freeman Family Foundation based?
- The Freeman Family Foundation is based in MA.
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