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The Freeman Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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 FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY$36
AMERICAN RED CROSS$36
THE PARK SCHOOL$25
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$25
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$18
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER$18
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$18
JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE$18
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CA
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 +107%
  • 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
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Jewish Committee; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA: $18 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC: $18 · International
Education$257,025Other$206,406Health$40,300Environment$10,000Recreation & Sports$1,105Youth Development$500International$144

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK SCHOOL CORPORATION: $50 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $36 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $36 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $18 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $18 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $18 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Fidelity FoundationBoston Foundation IncThe Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Freeman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Freeman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Boston Harbor Now Inc: 45% of income from government
  • America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores: 30% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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