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Massachusetts · Public charity

Free Software Foundation Inc

To promote and defend computer users rights to use, study, copy, and modify the software on their computer, as well as the related documentation. To assist in the development and use of free software and documentation.

$8k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
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Median grant, FY2024
$7,814
Largest grant, FY2024
$7,814
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.5M

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Largest grants in FY2024.

NumFOCUS Attn Leah Silen$7,814

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About Free Software Foundation Inc

How much does Free Software Foundation Inc give?
Free Software Foundation Inc reported 1 grants totaling $7,814 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Free Software Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Where is Free Software Foundation Inc based?
Free Software Foundation Inc is based in MA.

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 1 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 →

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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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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