How much does The Louis and Jean Freeman Foundation give?

The Louis and Jean Freeman Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $8,208 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Louis and Jean Freeman Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (52%), Education (23%), International (2%).

Who are The Louis and Jean Freeman Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Yeshiva of Far Rockaway ($27k), Cong Bais Yehudah ($10k), Jes 2016 Inc ($5k).

Does The Louis and Jean Freeman Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Louis and Jean Freeman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Louis and Jean Freeman Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc, Zichron Chaim Charity Fund.

Where is The Louis and Jean Freeman Foundation based?

The Louis and Jean Freeman Foundation is based in NY.

The Louis and Jean Freeman Foundation

The Louis and Jean Freeman Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Louis and Jean Freeman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$3k

Largest

01What it funds

0179% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$70kEducation$31kInternational$3kHuman Services$2kHealth$1kPhilanthropy$500Public Safety & Disaster$250Youth Development$200Other$0

02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$720

Median grant

States reached

$329k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$3,038
Individual grant recipient	$1,250
Manhattan High School for Girls	$1,050
AGUDAS ISRAEL BAIS BINYOMIN	$900
BAIS YAAKOV OF SPRING VALLEY	$720
Individual grant recipient	$360
MEOROT HATORAH INC	$360
Yeshiva Gedola of Cliffwood	$250
OZER DALIM OF NY INC	$180
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR AHAVAS TORAH	$100

02The need

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 (FY17–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$113k · 19 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$113k

$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

Still filing today

16%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesReligionEducationInternationalPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

YO
YESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY
3× · 2021–2023 · $27k
BJ
BETH JACOB DAY SCHOOL
2× · 2022–2023 · $25k
IG
Individual grant recipient
9× · 2017–2025 · $25k

Funded once

CB
CONG BAIS SHALOM INC
one grant, 2021 · $8k
J2
JES 2016 INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +116%
SS
SHAAREI SHMUOS INC
one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -66%

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.

Meir Isa Bracha Inc

To help establish and maintain agendas for Hebrew and religious enlightenment

Religion

Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc

Philanthropy

American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International

Mishken Chaim Rivnits

Assistance to the indigent

Religion

Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

Emet Veshalom Inc

To support organizations in israel that promote and encourage the study of jewish literary works including the study of the torah, mishna and talmud.

Religion

Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc

Philanthropy

American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah

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Yeshiva Beit Rafael

Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.

Philanthropy

Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Charity of Jerusalem Inc

Philanthropy

American Friends of Keshet Yehuda Nfp

religious and educational program for post high school youth

Philanthropy

American Friends of Kehillas Shivtei Yeshurun Inc

Assistance to establish a community in ramat beit shemesh, israel, founded upon torah principles, prayer, justice, charity and kindness to all peoples. to encourage and promote jewish religious activities.

Religion

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kneset Mordechai; the most unlike its peers is We Love to Help. 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

21 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. 21 of the 61 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/21

Grantees still filing

13/21

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$102,123Religion$28,940Human Services$7,480International$1,980Philanthropy$700Community Improvement$500Education$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

The Ojc FundNY36.6× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · Alyad Foundation Inc · The Jmg Foundation · The Basch Family Foundation · The Ganger Foundation Inc · Allen I Gross Charitable Foundation · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · The Fishoff Family 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 Louis and Jean Freeman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Louis and Jean Freeman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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.

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The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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