Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Freedom Trail Foundation Inc
Freedom Trail Foundation Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,000 to it, the largest being HIGHLAND STREET CONNECTION AND SUBSIDIARIES ($33,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Freedom Trail Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Yawkey Foundation IIshared funders
- Ruby W and Lavon P Linn Foundationportfolio match
- Munschauer Family Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 33% · 2022 4% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of Freedom Trail Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $11k → $9k.
From the IRS filings of Freedom Trail 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
Freedom Trail Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 56% — diversifying over time.
“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
99% of Freedom Trail Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Yawkey Foundation IIshared fundersMA · backs 88 organizations that share your funders
- Ruby W and Lavon P Linn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Munschauer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Baker Family Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kershaw Foundation Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lawrence & Lillian Solomon Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Charlotte Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vesper Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bigbird Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kuehn Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alvord Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Plourde Family Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Freedom Trail Foundation Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $197k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$190k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$8k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Freedom Trail Foundation Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Freedom Trail 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Freedom Trail Foundation Inc?
- Freedom Trail Foundation Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,000 to it, the largest being HIGHLAND STREET CONNECTION AND SUBSIDIARIES ($33,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Freedom Trail Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $58,000 in grants to Freedom Trail Foundation Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Freedom Trail Foundation Inc?
- HIGHLAND STREET CONNECTION AND SUBSIDIARIES is the largest funder on record, with $33,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Freedom Trail Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing