Wisconsin · Public charity
Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc
To keep church and state separate and to educate the public about nontheism
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 70%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $790k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $650,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $33M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 70% of the organizations Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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 | 8 | $790k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $600k | 70% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $1.1M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $193k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $406k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $84k | 88% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $10k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ffrf Action Fund Inc | $1,800,000 | 4 | 100% |
| Pitzer College | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Women's Medical Fund Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Think School | $62,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Ending Clergy Abuse USA | $50,000 | 1 | 23% |
| The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Black Nonbelievers | $40,000 | 4 | 23% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Secular Student Alliance | $33,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Black Skeptics Los Angeles | $25,000 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ffrf Action Fund Inc | $1,800,000 | 4 | 100% |
| Pitzer College | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Women's Medical Fund Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Think School | $62,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Ending Clergy Abuse USA | $50,000 | 1 | 23% |
| The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Black Nonbelievers | $40,000 | 4 | 23% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Secular Student Alliance | $33,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Black Skeptics Los Angeles | $25,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The American Humanist Association | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Options Fund | $20,000 | 2 | 8% |
| American Atheists Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Camp Quest Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 13% |
| National Network of Abortion Funds | $10,000 | 1 | 10% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Freedom Fund | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Constitution Society for Law & Policy | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Clergy Project | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Ed Asner Family Center | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($530k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
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About Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc
- How much does Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc give?
- Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc reported 8 itemized grants totaling $790,000, out of $1,031,390 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (52%), Education (39%), Health (4%).
- Who are Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Ffrf Action Fund Inc ($1.8M), Pitzer College ($300k), Women's Medical Fund Inc ($80k).
- Does Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 70% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Stiefel Freethought Foundation, Charter Charitable Foundation, Assurant Foundation.
- Where is Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc based?
- Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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