How much does The Freeman Foundation give?

The Freeman Foundation reported 95 grants totaling $20,420,140 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 72 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.

What does The Freeman Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (16%), International (8%), Arts & Culture (7%).

Who are The Freeman Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Vermont Land Trust Inc ($3.6M), First Nations Development Institute ($2.8M), Mag America Inc ($2.4M).

Does The Freeman Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Freeman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Freeman Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Atherton Family Foundation, McInerny Foundation--, J Watumull Fund.

Where is The Freeman Foundation based?

The Freeman Foundation is based in NY.

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New York · Private foundation

The Freeman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 95
Grants FY2024: 64
Organizations funded FY2023: 100%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,650,000
Organizations funded a year: 58 to 72; FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 31
Total assets, FY2024: $372M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations The Freeman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationInternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	77	$18M	40%
FY2023	64	$14M	100%
FY2022	72	$20M	47%
FY2021	58	$20M	n/a

97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$24MInternational$11MArts & Culture$9.8MEnvironment$9.6MPhilanthropy$8.8MHuman Services$5.5MCommunity Improvement$3.3MFood & Nutrition$2.4MOther$0

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, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Vermont Land Trust Inc	$3,625,000	2	14%
First Nations Development Institute	$2,800,000	2	6%
Mag America Inc	$2,400,000	2	2%
Save The Children Federation Inc	$2,000,000	2	0%
National Association of Japan-America Societies Inc	$1,416,280	2	52%
University of Pittsburgh	$1,112,364	2	0%
Hawaii Good Food Alliance	$1,032,350	1	16%
Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc	$944,100	2	22%
Five Colleges Incorporated	$939,254	2	5%
University of Washington Foundation	$867,450	2	0%

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All grantees of The Freeman Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Vermont Land Trust Inc	$3,625,000	2	14%
First Nations Development Institute	$2,800,000	2	6%
Mag America Inc	$2,400,000	2	2%
Save The Children Federation Inc	$2,000,000	2	0%
National Association of Japan-America Societies Inc	$1,416,280	2	52%
University of Pittsburgh	$1,112,364	2	0%
Hawaii Good Food Alliance	$1,032,350	1	16%
Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc	$944,100	2	22%
Five Colleges Incorporated	$939,254	2	5%
University of Washington Foundation	$867,450	2	0%
Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc	$637,400	2	6%
East-West Center Foundation	$576,150	2	17%
College for Every Student Inc	$534,000	2	10%
Shelburne Farms	$500,000	2	2%
University of Hawaii Foundation	$491,000	2	0%
University of Colorado Foundation	$455,700	1	0%
Asia Society Texas Center	$400,000	2	3%
Buffalo Nations Grasslands Alliance	$400,000	2	22%
Pacific & Asian Affairs Council	$400,000	2	29%
Villanova University	$360,000	2	0%
Indiana University School of Medicine	$360,000	2	n/a
Tucson Refugee Ministry	$350,000	2	33%
Blakemore Foundation	$300,000	1	58%
Kupu	$300,000	1	3%
World Monuments Fund Inc	$279,000	1	1%
Historic Hawai'I Foundation	$233,100	1	19%
Champlain College Incorporated	$215,000	2	0%
William & Mary Foundation	$205,000	2	0%
Drexel University	$200,000	1	0%
United States-Japan Bridging Foundation Inc	$200,000	2	18%
Davidson College	$200,000	2	0%
Pacific Gateway Center	$200,000	1	6%
University of Oregon Foundation	$200,000	1	0%
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc	$200,000	1	0%
Wing Luke Memorial Foundation	$200,000	2	2%
Punahou School	$200,000	2	0%
Saint Michael's College	$175,000	2	0%
Children's Museum Inc	$156,403	1	1%
Furman University	$152,000	2	0%
World Affairs Council	$150,000	2	6%
Butler University	$130,000	1	0%
'Iolani School	$125,000	1	0%
St Lawrence University	$124,000	2	0%
The University of Georgia Foundation	$100,000	1	0%
International Student Conferences Inc	$100,000	2	13%
United States Veterans Initiative	$100,000	1	0%
The United States - Indonesia Society	$90,000	2	6%
Volunteers in Asia	$88,000	2	7%
Kent State University Foundation	$75,000	1	0%
Childrens Discovery Center	$75,000	1	3%
Japan-America Society of Hawaii	$70,500	1	5%
Earlham College Inc	$70,000	1	0%
Texas Christian University	$68,881	2	0%
Hartwick College	$60,000	1	0%
St Johnsbury Academy	$50,000	1	0%
Hmong Cultural Center	$50,000	1	8%
Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii	$50,000	2	4%
Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum	$50,000	1	0%
Honolulu Museum of Art	$50,000	1	0%
Northern Forest Center Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Vermont Learning Collaborative Inc	$50,000	2	16%
Himalayan Cataract Project Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Endicott College	$47,000	1	0%
University of California Santa Barbara	$46,000	1	n/a
Straub Foundation	$42,780	1	0%
The Children's Museum Seattle	$40,000	1	2%
Japan America Society of Oregon	$40,000	2	5%
Nisei Veterans Memorial Center	$40,000	1	n/a
Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc	$35,955	2	0%
Appalachian State University Foundation Inc	$35,500	1	0%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$25,000	1	n/a
Rhodes College	$25,000	1	0%
Vermont Chinese School	$22,000	2	n/a
Denver Art Museum	$20,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 113 recipients with no EIN on record ($43M), not named here.

The Freeman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 69 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 69.

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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.

Atherton Family FoundationHI23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · J Watumull Fund · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA Inc · The Dods Foundation · Castiglione A Casauria 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.

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About The Freeman Foundation

How much does The Freeman Foundation give?: The Freeman Foundation reported 95 grants totaling $20,420,140 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 72 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does The Freeman Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (16%), International (8%), Arts & Culture (7%).
Who are The Freeman Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Vermont Land Trust Inc ($3.6M), First Nations Development Institute ($2.8M), Mag America Inc ($2.4M).
Does The Freeman Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Freeman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Freeman Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Atherton Family Foundation, McInerny Foundation--, J Watumull Fund.
Where is The Freeman Foundation based?: The Freeman Foundation is based in NY.