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New York · Public charity

Free the Work

FREE THE WORK is a nonprofit initiative dedicated to identifying systematic inequalities in film, television, advertising and media and finding actionable solutions to expand access for underrepresented creators.

$48k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2019
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Median grant, FY2024
$28,395
Largest grant, FY2024
$28,395
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$49k
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$28kCommunity Improvement$28k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Motion Picture and Television Fund$28,39510%
Black Entertainment Economic Council$20,0001n/a
Women Inspiration & Enterpris$7,5001n/a

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About Free the Work

How much does Free the Work give?
Free the Work reported 2 grants totaling $48,420 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Free the Work fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (51%), Community Improvement (49%).
Who are Free the Work's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Motion Picture and Television Fund ($28k), Black Entertainment Economic Council ($20k), Women Inspiration & Enterpris ($8k).
Where is Free the Work based?
Free the Work is based in NY.

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 3 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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