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The Freier Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Freier Family Foundation Inc

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.

$191k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$45k
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.

Human Services$418kFood & Nutrition$320kHealth$225kHousing & Shelter$180kEducation$42kReligion$27kYouth Development$10kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $188k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$85k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$45,000
SALVATION ARMY$45,000
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$30,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY TC$27,500
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION$10,000
CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN$3,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THINK SMALL: $8k → 14%THINK SMALL: $8k → 14%THINK SMALL: $8k → 14%THINK SMALL: $8k → 14%THINK SMALL: $8k → 14%THINK SMALL: $8k → 14%THINK SMALL: $8k → 14%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 13 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
6

Total granted

$1.2M
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
0%

Still filing today

54%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    4× · 2022–2025 · $170k · revenue +23%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +32%
  • TA
    THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • TF
    TABLETS FOR TOTS
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • TF
    TABLETS FOR TOTS
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
3
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
4
Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital

Provide quality, accessible, and valuable health care services via a hospital, home health agency, and clinic to the surrounding rural community.

Health
5
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
6
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
7
Healtheast Woodwinds Hospital

Fairview is driven to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives.

Health
8
Healtheast St John's Hospital

Fairview is driven to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives.

Health
9
Range Regional Health Services

Range Regional Health Services is an integrated health care system meeting the needs of our patients in an exemplary manner.

Health
10
The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration

Promote and fund research into developing better diagnostic processes, therapies, and cures for frontotemporal degeneration (ftd); provide information, education, support and advocacy to persons diagnosed with ftd, their families and…

Health
11
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
12
American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education

To advance and support pharmaceutical sciences education at U.S. schools and colleges. See Schedule O for full mission.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Prairiecare Fund. 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

11 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. 11 of the 20 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $262,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMYSECOND HARVEST: $150,000 · OtherSECOND HARVESTHABITAT FOR HUMANITY TC: $100,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY TCHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $77,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $72,500 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC+6 more: $44,850 · Other+6 moreAmerican Diabetes Association: $220,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes As…+1 more: $5,000 · HealthSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $170,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST …Think Small: $52,500 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationTHE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION: $7,000 · EducationPRAIRIECARE FUND: $30,000 · PhilanthropyFAMILY PROMISE INC: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterLake Street Council: $1,500 · Community Improvement
Other$707,350Health$225,000Food & Nutrition$170,000Human Services$52,500Education$37,000Philanthropy$30,000Housing & Shelter$2,500Community Improvement$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 budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $220,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $170,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $72,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThink Small: $52,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRAIRIECARE FUND: $30,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetTHE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK SQUARE THEATRE: $2,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLake Street Council: $1,500 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.

  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Think Small ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRAIRIECARE FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARK SQUARE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
  • Who funds Lake Street Council ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Freier Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Freier Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–25%
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 20 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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