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The Pauline S Freberg Foundation

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.

$57k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Religion$121kHuman Services$41kHealth$36kEducation$27kHousing & Shelter$25kAnimals$21kYouth Development$15kArts & Culture$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$531k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN EVANGELICAL SEMINARY$25,000
SE CHARITIES$20,000
THRIVE MINISTRY$10,000
PARADISE DREAMS ANIMAL SANCTUARY$1,000
ITS A SENSORY WORLD$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ITS A SENSORY WORLD: $1k → 14%GALILEE CENTERS: $20k → 11%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $10k → 12%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $5k → 12%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $332 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$195k · 8 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
13

Total granted

$195k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+50%

Still filing today

63%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCivil RightsHealthHousing & ShelterReligionAnimalsOther

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

  • CH
    Craig Hospital Foundation
    2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +35%
  • SV
    SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +85%
  • TM
    THRIVE MINISTRY
    2× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • EP
    EMILY'S PLACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +95%
  • GC
    GALILEE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • CC
    CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +70%

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.

1
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
2
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
3
Shepherd's Village Inc

Walk alongside single moms and their kids so they can face their future with confidence.

Housing & Shelter
4
Miracle Hill Ministries Inc

Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.

Human Services
5
S a F E Shelter

We are committed to helping victims of sexual assault and abuse and domestic assault and abuse through advocacy support and education. We provide emergency shelter to domestic assault victims. We Also are committed to educating the public…

6
Defy Ventures Inc

Defy ventures' mission is to shift mindsets to give people with criminal histories their best shot at a second chance by providing them with personal development, career readiness, and entrepreneurship training. defy's vision is to cut the…

Education
7
The Spring Shelter Inc

Providing advocacy, a safe escape, and ongoing christ-like care for victims of domestic violence, sexual violence, and human sex trafficking.

Human Services
8
Sojourn Landing Dba the Landing

Our mission is to serve survivors of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation with a trauma-informed approach fueled by the love of Christ.

Human Services
9
She Is Safe Inc

She Is Safe prevents, rescues and restores women and girls from abuse and exploitation in high risk communities across the globe, equipping them to build lives of freedom and faith for a strong future. We accomplish our work in partnership…

International
10
Time of Grace Ministry

Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…

Religion
11
Share

Share believes every person counts. together we pursue a stronger community by building relationships, advocating for equitable access to housing and food stability while empowering every individual to grow and thrive.

12
Step Springs

Step Springs is a subsidiary organization of Step Denver and when it opens in 2025 will be the first replication of the Step program. Step is a residential recovery community that gives men with nowhere else to turn the opportunity to…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sun Valley Youth Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paradise Dreams Animal Sanctuary. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOUTHERN EVANGELICAL SEMINARY — $45,000 · OtherSOUTHERN EVANGELICAL SEMINARYOPEN DOOR MINISTRIES — $30,000 · OtherOPEN DOOR MINISTRIESTHE DENVER STREET SCHOOL — $25,500 · OtherTHE DENVER STREET SCHOOLDESERT SPRINGS CHURCH — $23,450 · OtherDESERT SPRINGS CHURCHSE CHARITIES — $20,000 · OtherSE CHARITIESIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+6 more — $14,500 · Other+6 moreGALILEE CENTER INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesGALILEE CENTER IN…SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC — $15,332 · Human ServicesSUN VALLEY YOUTH …CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS…+2 more — $1,500 · Human ServicesCraig Hospital Foundation — $30,000 · HealthCraig Hospi…EMILY'S PLACE INC — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterEMILY'S P…THRIVE MINISTRY — $15,000 · ReligionParadise Dreams Animal Sanctuary — $11,000 · AnimalsSHAYS WARRIORS — $5,025 · Civil RightsSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Education
Other$168,450Human Services$46,832Health$30,000Housing & Shelter$25,000Religion$15,000Animals$11,000Civil Rights$5,025Education$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTHERN EVANGELICAL SEMINARY — $45,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DENVER STREET SCHOOL — $25,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGALILEE CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC — $15,332 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHRIVE MINISTRY — $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHAYS WARRIORS — $5,025 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetIts a Sensory World Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIDDEN HARVEST — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Denver FoundationCO12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Pauline S Freberg 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Pauline S Freberg Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Pauline S Freberg 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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