· Public charity
Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc
To keep church and state separate and to educate the public about nontheism
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $600,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $915,560 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $315,560 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k9 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FFRF ACTION FUND | $500,000 |
| AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN ATHEISTS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS AKA FREEDOM FUND INC | $10,000 |
| SECULAR STUDENT ALLIANCE CA | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW AND POLICY | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| BLACK NONBELIEVERS INC | $10,000 |
| OPTIONS FUND | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +86% since the first grant, against +82% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FAFFRF ACTION FUND INC3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · 100% of their budget
- WMWOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND INC4× · 2020–2023 · $80k · revenue +92%
- TSTHINK SCHOOL2× · 2021–2022 · $63k
Funded once
- UWUW WHITEWATERone grant, 2023 · $500k
- PCPitzer Collegegraduatedone grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +82%
- ECEnding Clergy Abuse USAgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +113%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To increase the visibility and respect for nontheistic viewpoints in the United States and to protect and strengthen the secular character of our government.
The national network of abortion funds (nnaf) is determined to build a world where all reproductive options are valued, accessible, and stigma-free. we believe all people know how to best care for their own bodies and build their own…
The mission of the ASA is interpreting, integrating, and communicating the discoveries of science with the insights of scripture and Christian theology.
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
Americans united for separation of church and state is a nonpartisan educational and advocacy organization dedicated to advancing the separation of religion and government as the only way to ensure freedom of religion, including the right…
Ifac acts in the public interest and has no profit-making purpose. ifac serves the public interest by: speaking out and engaging as the voice for the global profession; leading and developing a future-ready accountancy profession; and…
The center for freethought equality (cfe) is a sister organization of the american humanist association (aha) dedicated to lobbying and political advocacy. cfe will significantly increase humanist activity in key washington coalitions, and…
The Organization's members are dedicated to protecting the rights of faculty members at colleges and universities to speak, instruct, and publish without fear of sanction or punishment.
The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) serves as the unified voice for the 1,700 private, nonprofit colleges and universities in our nation. (continued on Schedule O)
To promote civil liberties through communication and interaction with and between the citizens and legislators of the state of florida
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Secular Student Alliance and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FFRF ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Pitzer College ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Ending Clergy Abuse USA ↗
- Who funds SECULAR STUDENT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BLACK NONBELIEVERS ↗
- Who funds BLACK SKEPTICS LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS ↗
- Who funds Options Fund ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY ↗
- Who funds CAMP QUEST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ATHEISTS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds THE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Stiefel Freethought Foundation · Charter Charitable Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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