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The Liberty Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$7,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$870
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Liberty Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$12k50%
FY20232$5k0%
FY20225$54k60%
FY20213$69k100%
FY20193$1k33%
FY201811$12k36%
FY201718$14kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$69kFood & Nutrition$25kHuman Services$19kEducation$19kRecreation & Sports$18kArts & Culture$2kCommunity Improvement$2kReligion$200Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
MD
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of The Liberty Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The American Legion Post 86$7,50022%
Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine$3,00020%
President and Trustees of Bates College$1,50020%
The President and Trustees of Colby College$1,50020%
Pitzer College$1,00020%
Connecticut College$1,00020%
Candace Foundation$1,0002n/a
Bowdoin College$50010%
Springfield College$50010%
Trustees of Boston University$50010%
University of New Haven$50010%
University of New England$50010%
Washington College$50010%

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($148k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Liberty Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe American Legion Post 86: $7,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Trustees of Bates College: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPitzer College: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut College: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpringfield College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Haven: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashington College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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How do I get to The Liberty Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Liberty 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.

About The Liberty Family Foundation

How much does The Liberty Family Foundation give?
The Liberty Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $12,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Liberty Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (41%), Food & Nutrition (15%), Human Services (11%).
Who are The Liberty Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The American Legion Post 86 ($8k), Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine ($3k), President and Trustees of Bates College ($2k).
Does The Liberty Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Liberty Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is The Liberty Family Foundation based?
The Liberty Family Foundation is based in ME.

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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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