· Private foundation
The Freeman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k19 grants · $553k
- $50k–250k51 grants · $5.2M
- $250k+25 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $1,650,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION | $1,330,000 |
| VERMONT LAND TRUST | $1,225,000 |
| MAG AMERICA INC | $1,200,000 |
| HAWAII GOOD FOOD ALLIANCE | $1,032,350 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION | $1,000,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETIES INCORPORATED | $711,280 |
| FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $650,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE | $569,541 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $556,182 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDAION - CENTER FOR ASIAN STUDIES | $455,700 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $433,725 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $391,116 |
| FIVE COLLEGES INC | $372,413 |
| PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT | $363,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
84 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
VERMONT LAND TRUST INC2× · 2023–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +18%- FNFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE2× · 2023–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +138%
MAG AMERICA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +11%
Funded once
- TTThe Trust for Public Land (THE TRUS)one grant, 2021 · $2.6M
- STSave the Children Federationone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- CUColumbia Univ Weatherhead East Asian Instone grant, 2022 · $623k
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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…
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…
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.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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…
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
How this is measured
80 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. 80 of the 197 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds VERMONT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAG AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Hawaii Good Food Alliance ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds FIVE COLLEGES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE FOR EVERY STUDENT INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Freeman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Freeman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Vermont Land Trust Inc: 42% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc: 29% of income from government
- Delaware Community Foundation Inc: 13% of income from government
- Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc: 12% of income from government
- Five Colleges Incorporated: 3% of income from government
- St Johnsbury Academy: 3% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
- Endicott College: 1% of income from government
- Saint Michael's College: 0% of income from government
- Champlain College Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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