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Ud Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust

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.

$3.5M
Granted FY2021
99
Grants FY2021
States reached
$138k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$740kEnvironment$420kHealth$293kEducation$280kReligion$210kAnimals$195kPublic Benefit$190kCivil Rights$123kOther$0
02FY2021 · 99 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 99 grants below total $3,190,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,500,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $310,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k69 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k28 grants · $1.9M
$25,000
Median grant
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF S CAROLINA$137,500
DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT$110,000
JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER$100,000
FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM$100,000
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION$100,000
FRIENDS OF THE NY TRANSIT MUSEUM$100,000
STATUE OF LIBERTY-ELLIS ISLD FDN$75,000
GSPHHP FOUNDATION$75,000
NRHS FUND$70,000
ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION$60,000
THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY$60,000
HUGUENOT SOCIETY OF SO. CAROLINA$57,500
CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND$55,000
ST THOMAS MORE PARISH$50,000
HOPEWELL FUND$50,000
02Your field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2021–2021.

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 20212021, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 84 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STATUE OF LIBERTY-ELLIS ISLD FDN — $140,000 · OtherMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF S CAROLINA — $137,500 · OtherDIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT — $110,000 · OtherFLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM — $110,000 · Other+80 more — $2,692,500 · Other+80 more
Other$3,190,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their 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.

03Through Plinth

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How do I get to Ud Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Ud Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust 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 84 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $3.3M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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