Virginia · Public charity
Foundation for American Freedom
FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN FREEDOM funds, promotes, sponsors, and facilitates independent nonpartisan educational and related activities dedicated to improving the lives of americans.
- $7.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $182k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Foundation for American Freedom funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $7.5M | 80% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $9.8M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $6.9M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $6.1M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $5.9M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $5.5M | 20% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $5.1M | 75% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $976k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Beacon LLC | $46,973,000 | 8 | n/a |
| National Review Institute | $495,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Reason Foundation | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Alexander Hamilton Society | $100,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Critical Review Foundation Inc | $65,000 | 3 | 21% |
| Stanford Review | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sundial Publishing Company | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Salient Publications | $25,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Buckley Institute Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
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About Foundation for American Freedom
- How much does Foundation for American Freedom give?
- Foundation for American Freedom reported 5 grants totaling $7,500,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Foundation for American Freedom fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (96%), Public Benefit (1%), International (0%).
- Who are Foundation for American Freedom's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Free Beacon LLC ($47M), National Review Institute ($495k), The Reason Foundation ($100k).
- Does Foundation for American Freedom fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Foundation for American Freedom based?
- Foundation for American Freedom is based in VA.
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