Maryland · Nonprofit
Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc
Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,020,265 to it, the largest being THE CLIMATE COUSINS FOUNDATION ($261,740). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $727k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $314k
What Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc does
Mission
Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc. is a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower small and mid-sized farmers to build generational wealth by expanding market access, providing technical assistance, and enhancing financial resilience. The organization's vision is a future where small and mid-sized farmers build enduring wealth, leave a powerful legacy for future generations, and play a defining role in shaping the character and future of the U.S. agricultural sector. Freedmen Heirs Foundation creates pathways to economic mobility and generational wealth for small and mid-sized farming families through three core program pillars: FH-MAP, which equips farmers with the knowledge and tools needed to access higher-value markets; FARM, which supports cash flow management, budgeting, recordkeeping, and financial planning to build profitable and sustainable farm businesses; and the Legacy Initiative, which supports farmers in building generational wealth, leaving enduring legacies, and play
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
FARM (Financial and Revenue Management), which supports farmers in managing cash flow, budgeting, recordkeeping, and financial planning to build profitable and sustainable farm businesses
$196,111 spent46% of program spendingFH-MAP (Freedmen Heirs Market Access Program), which equips farmers with the knowledge and tools needed to access and succeed in higher-value markets
$167,663 spent39% of program spendingThe Legacy Initiative, which supports farmers in building generational wealth, resolving succession challenges, and securing enduring land legacies for future generations.
$62,668 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $426,442.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $543k to $357k (−34%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Seanicaa Herron
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $489k → $197k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
45% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 31% · 2022 75% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $345k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc's revenue grew 32% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc?
- Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,020,265 to it, the largest being THE CLIMATE COUSINS FOUNDATION ($261,740). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,020,265 in grants to Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc?
- THE CLIMATE COUSINS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $261,740 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing