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Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc

To keep church and state separate and to educate the public about nontheism

$916k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Civil Rights$1.2MEducation$921kHealth$105kReligion$32kArts & Culture$28kInternational$20kYouth Development$10kEmployment$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

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
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 10%THINK SCHOOL: $50k → 11%SECULAR STUDENT ALLIANCE CA: $10k → 14%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC: $10k → 17%AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW AND POLICY: $10k → 14%THE CLERGY PROJECT: $9k → 12%PARK HALL HISTORIC RESTORATION FUND: $12k → 9%UW WHITEWATER: $500k → 10%UW MADISON - CENTER FOR RELIGION AND GLOBAL CITIZENRY: $2k → 10%NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS AKA FREEDOM FUND INC: $10k → 11%ENDING CLERGY ABUSE USA: $50k → 9%AMERICAN ATHEISTS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%THINK SCHOOL: $13k → 11%SECULAR STUDENT ALLIANCE CA: $8k → 14%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $10k → 17%AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%BLACK SKEPTICS LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%BLACK SKEPTICS LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%BLACK SKEPTICS OF LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%SECULAR STUDENT ALLIANCE CA: $10k → 14%ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 14%SECULAR STUDENT ALLIANCE CA: $6k → 14%PITZER COLLEGE: $300k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
WI
NY
NJ
CA
VA
DC
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 6 repeat orgs$991k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

$1.4M
$911k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
+82%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsEducationHealthInternationalFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • FA
    FFRF ACTION FUND INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · 100% of their budget
  • WM
    WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $80k · revenue +92%
  • TS
    THINK SCHOOL
    2× · 2021–2022 · $63k

Funded once

  • UW
    UW WHITEWATER
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
  • PC
    Pitzer Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +82%
  • EC
    Ending Clergy Abuse USAgraduated
    one 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.

04Your field

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.

1
Secular Coalition for America Inc

To increase the visibility and respect for nontheistic viewpoints in the United States and to protect and strengthen the secular character of our government.

Civil Rights
2
National Network of Abortion Funds Inc

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…

Environment
3
American Scientific Affiliation

The mission of the ASA is interpreting, integrating, and communicating the discoveries of science with the insights of scripture and Christian theology.

Religion
4
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

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.

5
American Foreign Service Association

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…

6
Americans United for Separation of Church and State

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…

Civil Rights
7
International Federation of Accountants

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…

Education
8
The Center for Freethought Equality

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…

Civil Rights
9
Academic Freedom Alliance

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.

Philanthropy
10
The Conversationalist
11
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities

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)

12
American Civil Liberties Union of Florida Inc

To promote civil liberties through communication and interaction with and between the citizens and legislators of the state of florida

Civil Rights

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FFRF ACTION FUND INC — $1,150,000 · Civil RightsFFRF ACTION FUND INCEnding Clergy Abuse USA — $50,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $25,000 · Civil RightsUW WHITEWATER — $500,000 · OtherUW WHITEWATERTHINK SCHOOL — $62,500 · OtherTHINK SCHOOLBLACK NONBELIEVERS — $30,000 · Other+7 more — $79,000 · Other+7 morePitzer College — $300,000 · EducationPitzer CollegeSECULAR STUDENT ALLIANCE — $33,500 · EducationSECULAR STUDENT …+1 more — $10,000 · EducationWOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND INC — $80,000 · HealthTHE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER — $5,000 · HealthInternational Rescue Committee INC — $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $10,000 · InternationalCAMP QUEST INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAN ATHEISTS INC — $10,000 · ReligionSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI — $7,000 · Food & Nutrition
Civil Rights$1,225,000Other$671,500Education$343,500Health$85,000International$20,000Youth Development$10,000Religion$10,000Food & Nutrition$7,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFFRF ACTION FUND INC — $1,150,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetPitzer College — $300,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND INC — $80,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetEnding Clergy Abuse USA — $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetSECULAR STUDENT ALLIANCE — $33,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetBLACK NONBELIEVERS — $30,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetTHE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS — $10,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetOptions Fund — $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP QUEST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN ATHEISTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

Stiefel Freethought FoundationDE15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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