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William & Winifred Freeman Foundation at a glance

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William & Winifred Freeman Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$46k
Granted FY2019
1
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Philanthropy$46kEducation$23kHuman Services$8kHealth$7kArts & Culture$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kAnimals$3kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2019 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$46,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AARON & SEARON VENOUZIOU CHARITABLE TRUST$46,250
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 (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN SERVICE ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2k → 11%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $1k → 7%GABRIEL'S ANGELS INC: $2k → 11%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

IL
WI
CA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
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 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
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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2
Hero Dogs Inc

Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.

Human Services
3
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
4
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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5
Adult Congenital Heart Association

To empower the congenital heart disease (chd) community by advancing access to resources and specialized care that improve patient-centered outcomes.

Health
6
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
7
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
8
American Health Law Association

The mission of the american health law association is to deliver authoritative educational content and serve as a professional home for all who engage with health law.

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9
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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10
Divine Canines

Divine canines therapy encourages smiles and brightens lives. to accomplish this, we recruit and train teams of dogs and their owners and organize and facilitate regular, frequent visits to residents of special care facilities.

Animals
11
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
12
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Literacy Volunteers of Maricopa County Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AARON & SEARON VENOUZIOU CHARITABLE TRUST: $46,250 · OtherAARON & SEARON VENOUZIOU CHARITABLE TRUSTCARSON SCHOLARS READING ROOM: $5,000 · OtherCARSON SCHOLARS READING ROOMDOLLY PARTON LIBRARY: $5,000 · OtherDOLLY PARTON LIBRARYCARING CORPS: $5,000 · OtherCARING CORPSLEBONHEUR CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $5,000 · OtherLEBONHEUR CHILDRENS HOSPITALNAT'L DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATN: $5,000 · OtherNAT'L DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATN+7 more: $9,100 · Other+7 moreUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $15,000 · EducationUniversity of Il…GABRIELS ANGELS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN SERVICE ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,000 · Human ServicesAlmost Home Kids: $1,000 · Human ServicesMARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,000 · HealthAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $1,000 · Animals
Other$80,350Education$15,000Human Services$5,000Health$1,000Animals$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 budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGABRIELS ANGELS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMens Shelter of Charlotte Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SERVICE ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAlmost Home Kids: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKinderMourn Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO DISTRICT GOLF ASSOCIATION: $100 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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY10.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 William & Winifred Freeman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William & Winifred Freeman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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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
    3report 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.

    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 19 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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