· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $16,282,236 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $32,526,521 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,244,285 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $601k
- $250k+6 grants · $16M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNEWS NETWORK | $6,002,831 |
| SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND | $4,904,471 |
| AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION | $2,099,919 |
| PACT INC | $2,015,926 |
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE ON RACE EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS (IIREHR) | $350,000 |
| PARTNERS GLOBAL | $278,278 |
| CIVICUS WORLD ALLIANCE FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION INC | $195,719 |
| INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW INC | $184,180 |
| SYNERGIA - INITIATIVES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS | $91,692 |
| OUTRIGHT ACTION INTERNATIONAL CORP | $79,170 |
| PANORAMA GLOBAL | $50,000 |
| GLOBAL ACTION FOR TRANS EQUALITY INC | $30,050 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $220k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
Grants abroad, by region — $16M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $12M to organizations and $4.1M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND/OR RULE OF LAW
Stated purpose: SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND/OR RULE OF LAW
Stated purpose: SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND/OR RULE OF LAW
Stated purpose: SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND/OR RULE OF LAW
Stated purpose: SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND/OR RULE OF LAW
Stated purpose: SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND/OR RULE OF LAW
Stated purpose: SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND/OR RULE OF LAW
Stated purpose: SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND/OR RULE OF LAW
Stated purpose: SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND/OR RULE OF LAW
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $430k 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
- PIPACT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $67M · revenue +57%
- ABAmerican Bar Association9× · 2017–2025 · $43M · revenue +13%
- SFSEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND9× · 2017–2025 · $39M · revenue +29% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- GSGENERAL SECRETARIAT OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATESone grant, 2019 · $239k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEYone grant, 2021 · $116k
- HHHEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INCone grant, 2017 · $77k · revenue +21%
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.
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See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
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To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Synergia - Initiatives for Human Rights and the most unlike its peers is The Brookings Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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. 30 of the 33 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 PACT INC ↗
- Who funds American Bar Association ↗
- Who funds SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND ↗
- Who funds INTERNEWS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CIVICUS WORLD ALLIANCE FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW INC ↗
- Who funds SYNERGIA - INITIATIVES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds OUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSGLOBAL ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE ON RACE EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds CREATING RESOURCES FOR EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Christian Concern Inc ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOAT PEOPLE S O S INC ↗
- Who funds BENEFICENT TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR WAR & PEACE REPORTING-US ↗
- Who funds SALAM PEACE AND JUSTICE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PANORAMA GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds TRUTH FOR JUSTICE RIGHTS IN IRAN ↗
- Who funds YAZDA ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ACTION FOR TRANS EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Directorio Democratico Cubano Inc ↗
- Who funds Ideas Beyond Borders Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
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: 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
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 House 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.