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The Freeman-Harrison 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.

$52k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$440kRecreation & Sports$304kInternational$39kHealth$12kPhilanthropy$10kFood & Nutrition$6kCrime & Legal$2kSocial Science$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MY OWN BOOK FUND$50,000
MGA CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP FUND$2,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION: $300 → 10%MGA CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $2k → 9%CITY HARVEST INC: $1k → 17%POPULATION CONNECTION: $500 → 14%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $2k → 12%MGA CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $2k → 9%CITY HARVEST INC: $1k → 17%POPULATION CONNECTION: $500 → 14%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $2k → 12%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $750 → 17%POPULATION CONNECTION: $500 → 14%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $2k → 12%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $750 → 17%BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $500 → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $500 → 17%BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $500 → 14%MY OWN BOOK FUND INC: $145k → 17%BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $500 → 14%MY OWN BOOK FUND INC: $100k → 17%MY OWN BOOK FUND: $75k → 17%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $14k → 17%MY OWN BOOK FUND: $50k → 17%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $13k → 17%MY OWN BOOK FUND INC: $32k → 17%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $12k → 17%MY OWN BOOK: $50k → 17%MY OWN BOOK FUND INC: $20k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $3k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $3k → 17%ASPHALT GREEN: $50k → 17%ASPHALT GREEN: $50k → 17%ASPHALT GREEN: $50k → 17%ASPHALT GREEN: $50k → 17%CITY MEALS-ON-WHEELS: $1k → 17%CITY MEALS-ON-WHEELS: $1k → 17%CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $1k → 17%ASPHALT GREEN: $50k → 17%ASPHALT GREEN: $50k → 17%PHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC: $2k → 17%PHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC: $2k → 17%PHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC: $2k → 17%PHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC: $2k → 17%PHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC: $2k → 17%PHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC: $1k → 17%NORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 17%NORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 17%NORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 17%NORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 17%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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$815k · 16 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
1

Total granted

$815k
$50k

Still filing today

81%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionInternationalHealthSocial ScienceOther

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

  • MO
    My Own Book Fund Inc
    6× · 2017–2025 · $423k · revenue +36% · 44% of their budget
  • AG
    ASPHALT GREEN INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $300k · revenue +34%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $39k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $50k

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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
5
The New York and Presbyterian Hospital

To be a leader in the provision of world class patient care, teaching, research, and service to local, state, national, and international communities. newyork-presbyterian hospital is one of the nation's most comprehensive, integrated…

Health
6
Justice Innovation Inc

The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.

Crime & Legal
7
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
8
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
9
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
10
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

11
Edible Schoolyard New York

Edible schoolyard nyc is on a mission to make edible education accessible for every child in nyc. we believe edible education-where kids experience hands-on cooking and gardening helps kids gain the skills to contribute to a healthy and…

Education
12
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Institute for Reproductive Health Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. 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

13 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. 13 of the 17 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)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

My Own Book Fund Inc — $422,667 · EducationMy Own Book Fund IncNORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC — $17,500 · EducationASPHALT GREEN INC — $300,000 · Recreation & SportsASPHALT GREEN INC+1 more — $450 · Recreation & SportsIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherIndividua…PHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC — $10,000 · OtherPHILANTHR…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $5,000 · OtherMEMORIAL …MGA CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $4,000 · OtherMGA CADDI…+4 more — $4,850 · Other+4 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $39,000 · InternationalCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $3,600 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC — $2,000 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $4,800 · HealthPOPULATION CONNECTION — $1,500 · Social Science
Education$440,167Recreation & Sports$300,450Other$73,850International$39,000Food & Nutrition$5,600Health$4,800Social Science$1,500

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 budgetMy Own Book Fund Inc — $422,667 over 6y, 44% of budgetASPHALT GREEN INC — $300,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $39,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC — $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC — $10,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $4,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $3,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Center for Science Education — $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC — $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARL SCHURZ PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $450 over 3y, 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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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-Harrison 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Freeman-Harrison Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Freeman-Harrison Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 17 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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