· Private foundation
The Gertrude and Israel Freedman Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of THE GERTRUDE AND ISRAEL FREEDMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $4,000 |
| JUSTIN BARTLETT ANIMAL RESCUE | $3,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $3,000 |
| SENIOR DOG SANTUARY OF MARYLAND | $3,000 |
| DRUG ABUSE FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $2,000 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $2,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $2,000 |
| PARKINSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| THE SOUP KITCHEN OF BOYNTON BEACH | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| PEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESCUE | $2,000 |
| 988 SUICIDE & CRISIS LIFELINEVIBRANT EMOTIONAL HEALTH | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
57 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +145%- JBJustin Bartlett Animal Resuce Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +28%
- TJTHE JEMICY SCHOOL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- JMJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +145%
- AJASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMOREone grant, 2019 · $3k
- UCUKRAINE CHILDREN'S AID FUNDone grant, 2022 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
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Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
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,…
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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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is Covenant Guild Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 71 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Justin Bartlett Animal Resuce Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds THE JEMICY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DRUG ABUSE FOUNDATION OF PBC INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASHER HOUSE ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds Parkinson Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ukraine Childrens Aid Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds American Brain Tumor Association ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds COVENANT GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Gertrude and Israel Freedman Charitable Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- The Maryland School for the Blind — 47% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
- Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
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.