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The Pauline S Freberg Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
CA
CO
MO
MD
NM
TN
SC
TX
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +50% for those funded once.

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

+83%
+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
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

  • CH
    Craig Hospital Foundation
    2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +110%
  • 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%
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.

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…

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sun Valley Youth Center Inc; 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Texas Instruments Fou…Natl Christian Charit…Raymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
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

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 Pauline S Freberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pauline S Freberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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