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The Freeman-Harrison Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $1k → 17%CITY MEALS-ON-WHEELS: $1k → 17%CITY MEALS-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
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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
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
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Institute for Reproductive Health Inc; 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 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. 13 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetCARL SCHURZ PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC: $450 over 2y, 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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's 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, 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 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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