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Freedomworks Foundation Inc

The mission of freedomworks foundation is to educate and empower americans with the principles of individual liberty, small government, and free markets. Education is the animating force that informs the daily activities at freedomworks foundation. The organization was founded in 1984 on the campus of george mason university-a center for…

$34k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$33,656
Largest grant, FY2022
$33,656
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Freedomworks Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20221$34k100%
FY20211$200k100%
FY20203$519kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Public Benefit$286kCommunity Improvement$233kHuman Services$200kYouth Development$34k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Unleash Prosperity Inc$233,05017%
American Legislative Exchange Council$203,05013%
Moms for America Inc$200,00016%
Tea Party Patriots Foundation Inc$83,05017%
Robert Smalls Legacy Foundation$33,656139%

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.

Donors Trust IncVA14× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Freedomworks Foundation Inc

How much does Freedomworks Foundation Inc give?
Freedomworks Foundation Inc reported 1 grants totaling $33,656 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Freedomworks Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Public Benefit (38%), Community Improvement (31%), Human Services (27%).
Who are Freedomworks Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: Unleash Prosperity Inc ($233k), American Legislative Exchange Council ($203k), Moms for America Inc ($200k).
Does Freedomworks Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Freedomworks Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Freedomworks Foundation Inc based?
Freedomworks Foundation Inc is based in DC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 5 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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