How much does Twilight & Marc Freedman Fdn give?

Twilight & Marc Freedman Fdn reported 29 grants totaling $998,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Twilight & Marc Freedman Fdn fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Philanthropy (18%), Public Safety & Disaster (14%).

Who are Twilight & Marc Freedman Fdn's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: United Way of Greater Houston ($815k), The University of Texas Foundation Inc ($595k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($523k).

Does Twilight & Marc Freedman Fdn fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Twilight & Marc Freedman Fdn accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Twilight & Marc Freedman Fdn?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Charities Aid Foundation America, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.

Where is Twilight & Marc Freedman Fdn based?

Twilight & Marc Freedman Fdn is based in NJ.

Twilight & Marc Freedman Fdn

Twilight & Marc Freedman Fdn at a glance

· Private foundation

Twilight & Marc Freedman Fdn

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.

$999k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$220k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$1.4MPhilanthropy$860kPublic Safety & Disaster$683kHealth$582kFood & Nutrition$338kInternational$260kEnvironment$180kPublic Benefit$133kOther$0

02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $27k
$10k–50k19 grants · $367k
$50k–250k5 grants · $605k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FDN	$220,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER HOUSTON	$150,000
HOUSTON FOOD BANK	$100,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS	$85,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC	$50,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL	$35,000
UNICEF USA	$30,000
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION	$30,000
SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN	$25,000
THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND	$25,000
FOUNDERS' PLEDGE INC	$25,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION	$20,000
CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE	$20,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY	$20,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND	$20,000

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 (FY18–25, $543k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.7M · 42 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.7M

$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%

Still filing today

76%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthInternationalEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentCivil RightsOther

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

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $595k · revenue +28%
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American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
8× · 2018–2025 · $523k · revenue +9%
The Houston Food Bank
8× · 2018–2025 · $338k · revenue +28%

Funded once

BA
Bay Area Turning Point Incgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +51%
OR
OUR RESCUE
one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue -25%
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -46%

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.

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International

American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement

Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International

American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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The One Campaign

The ONE Campaign ("ONE") continued its work to educate and raise awareness among the public, media and policymakers around the world about the importance of official development assistance and international programs that (Continued on…

Unclassified

United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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International Federation of Accountants

Ifac acts in the public interest and has no profit-making purpose. ifac serves the public interest by: speaking out and engaging as the voice for the global profession; leading and developing a future-ready accountancy profession; and…

Education

Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International

American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Sparks Foundation. 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

43 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. 43 of the 56 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)

42/43

Grantees still filing

25/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,259,500Philanthropy$860,000Human Services$543,000Health$475,500International$406,000Arts & Culture$184,000Environment$135,000

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 Blackbaud Giving FundSC11× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Twilight & Marc Freedman Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Twilight & Marc Freedman Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home