How much does Freedom House give?

Freedom House reported 12 itemized grants totaling $16,282,236, out of $32,526,521 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Freedom House fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (63%), International (22%), Arts & Culture (15%).

Who are Freedom House's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pact Inc ($67M), American Bar Association ($43M), Search for Common Ground ($39M).

Does Freedom House fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Freedom House?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Endowment for Democracy, The Ford Foundation, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Freedom House

FREEDOM HOUSE is an independent non-partisan, non-governmental organization that works to defend and expand freedom globally to help secure a world where all are free. We identify and analyze threats to freedom (research & analysis), mobilize decision makers to respond to those threats and seize opportunities for progress (policy &…

$33M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 12
Itemized grants FY2025: 10
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $16M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $278,278
Largest grant, FY2025: $6,002,831
Organizations funded a year: 10 to 15; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $34M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Freedom House funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalSocial ScienceCivil RightsArts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	12	$16M	25%
FY2024	10	$29M	0%
FY2023	13	$41M	15%
FY2022	15	$37M	27%
FY2021	14	$26M	14%
FY2020	12	$18M	17%
FY2019	15	$14M	33%
FY2018	11	$7.7M	18%

100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$122MInternational$43MArts & Culture$28MHuman Services$147kReligion$135kPublic Benefit$60kEducation$48kScience & Tech$27kOther$0

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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Pact Inc	$67,370,614	9	11%
American Bar Association	$42,687,468	9	7%
Search for Common Ground	$39,067,327	9	28%
Internews Network	$28,258,674	8	7%
The Carter Center Inc	$3,285,708	3	1%
Civicus World Alliance for Citizen Participation	$2,932,862	9	5%
International Center for Not-For-Profit Law Inc	$2,405,389	9	4%
Synergia - Initiatives for Human Rights	$1,419,182	7	24%
Outright International	$1,084,192	9	3%
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc	$1,077,242	4	3%

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All grantees of Freedom House by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Pact Inc	$67,370,614	9	11%
American Bar Association	$42,687,468	9	7%
Search for Common Ground	$39,067,327	9	28%
Internews Network	$28,258,674	8	7%
The Carter Center Inc	$3,285,708	3	1%
Civicus World Alliance for Citizen Participation	$2,932,862	9	5%
International Center for Not-For-Profit Law Inc	$2,405,389	9	4%
Synergia - Initiatives for Human Rights	$1,419,182	7	24%
Outright International	$1,084,192	9	3%
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc	$1,077,242	4	3%
Partnersglobal	$796,778	3	3%
Foundation for Democratic Development	$739,118	4	23%
The International Institute on Race Equality and Human Rights	$350,000	1	n/a
Mobility Int'L USA	$256,384	3	n/a
Creating Resources for Empowerment and Action Inc	$220,201	5	2%
University of California Berkeley	$115,609	1	n/a
Heartland Human Care Services Inc	$76,773	1	0%
Boat People S O S Inc	$72,999	3	1%
Beneficent Technology Inc	$69,812	2	0%
Institute for War & Peace Reporting-Us	$60,088	2	0%
Salam Peace and Justice Institute	$59,278	2	50%
Panorama Global	$50,000	1	n/a
Truth for Justice Rights in Iran	$47,500	1	7%
Yazda	$35,957	1	2%
Global Action for Trans Equality Inc	$30,050	1	n/a
American Association for the Advancement of Science	$26,894	1	0%
Global Fund for Women Inc	$13,061	1	0%
Directorio Democratico Cubano Inc	$11,019	1	1%
Ideas Beyond Borders Inc	$10,000	1	0%
The Brookings Institution	$10,000	1	0%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($239k), not named here.

Freedom House supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

National Endowment for DemocracyDC26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Endowment for Democracy · The Ford Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · New Venture Fund · Family Health International Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Tides Foundation · Internews Network · Arcus Foundation · Open Society Institute

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Freedom House

How much does Freedom House give?: Freedom House reported 12 itemized grants totaling $16,282,236, out of $32,526,521 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Freedom House fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (63%), International (22%), Arts & Culture (15%).
Who are Freedom House's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pact Inc ($67M), American Bar Association ($43M), Search for Common Ground ($39M).
Does Freedom House fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Freedom House?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Endowment for Democracy, The Ford Foundation, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc.
Where is Freedom House based?: Freedom House is based in DC.