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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
100
Itemized grants FY2021
84
Organizations funded FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$3.2M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$137,500
Total assets, FY2021
$22M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
89% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2021.

MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF S CAROLINA$137,500
DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT$110,000
FRIENDS OF THE NY TRANSIT MUSEUM$100,000
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION$100,000
JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER$100,000
FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM$100,000
GSPHHP FOUNDATION$75,000
STATUE OF LIBERTY-ELLIS ISLD FDN$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
STATUE OF LIBERTY-ELLIS ISLD FDN$50,000
N/O MERRILL LYNCH$50,000

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About Ud Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust

How much does Ud Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust give?
Ud Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust reported 100 itemized grants totaling $3,200,000, out of $3,500,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Ud Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2021, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (3%), Environment (2%), Health (1%).
Does Ud Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust 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.
Where is Ud Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust based?
Ud Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust is based in TX.

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 84 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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