How much did THE LOUIS AND JEAN FREEMAN FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 92% of THE LOUIS AND JEAN FREEMAN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

israel

2020

—

2021

kollelbneiyaakovbelle harboryeshivacong bais

2022

yaakovyeshiva

2023

belle harboryeshiva

2024

—

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$180

Median grant

States reached

$572k

Total assets

Largest grants

CONG TORAH U'TEFILAH$3,362
cong ahavas tzdokah v'chesed$180
Bais Yaakov of Spring Valley$100

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$95k · 14 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$95k

$23k

Still filing today

37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationReligionCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

YO
YESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY
3× · 2021–2023 · $27k
BJ
BETH JACOB DAY SCHOOL
2× · 2022–2023 · $25k
CT
CONG TORAH U'TEFILAH
7× · 2018–2024 · $19k

Funded once

CB
CONG BAIS SHALOM INC
one grant, 2021 · $8k
J2
Jes 2016 Inc
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +56%
SS
SHA'AREI SHMUOS
one grant, 2021 · $2k

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.

Meir Isa Bracha Inc

To help establish and maintain agendas for Hebrew and religious enlightenment

Religion

Mehkere Eres Inc

to provide financial aid to organizations and lecturers which focus on strengthening Orthodox Jewish values.

Religion

Kollel Ohr Shmuel Inc

To learn, spread, and study torah

Religion

Aliat Beit Hanania Inc

The organization will pay professional lecturers and provide supplies and material to disseminate the Torah, Orthodox Jewish laws and customs. The organization will establish and maintain programs for Hebrew and Jewish religious…

Religion

Kehilla Kedosha Inc

TO FOCUS ON JEWISH EDUCATION AND SPIRITUALITY AND to engage with the Almighty by means of passionate prayer, to delve into the inner dimensions of the Torah, and to grow in ones relationship with Hashem.

Religion

Keter Aram Tzova Inc

Primary exempt purpose - donations for continuing education of young men in pursuit of higher learning to earn rabbinical certification specifically for those who are from under-privileged families and who do not have the necessary…

Religion

Ohr Yisrael Yeshiva Inc

Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.

Religion

American Friends of Yeshivat

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Ohr Olam Corp

Publish religious books

Religion

Heichal Habesht Inc

To emulate the baal shem tov, to make the world a better place with love and torah.to provide physical and spiritual nourishment

Religion

Outreach Judaism Inc

Unclassified

American Friends of Torat Eliyahu

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Merkaz Hatzedaka Corp and the most unlike its peers is Yeshivas Beis Dovid Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/21

the rest of the field

10%

2,771/28,307

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.

05the grantee network

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/11

Grantees still filing

9/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$109,565Human Services$7,240Community Improvement$500Philanthropy$500Education$350Youth Development$200Religion$180

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.

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.

The Ojc FundNY28.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Jmg Foundation · Alyad Foundation Inc · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · Freund Family Foundation The · The Hirsch Family Charitable · The Ganger Foundation Inc · Yisroel Aryeh and Leib Foundation · The Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn

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 organisation THE LOUIS AND JEAN FREEMAN 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Yeshivas Beis Dovid Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 28.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 831263309 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Yeshivas Beis Dovid Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE LOUIS AND JEAN FREEMAN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Louis and Jean Freeman Foundation?

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THE LOUIS AND JEAN FREEMAN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Louis and Jean Freeman Foundation?

More from the funding graph