· Private foundation
Individual Freedom Fund
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k7 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANSWERS IN GENESIS | $33,500 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $33,500 |
| RAFIKI FOUNDATION | $31,000 |
| THE HAVEN AT HEBRON | $30,000 |
| BLACKABY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL | $21,500 |
| THE OBRIA GROUP INC | $10,500 |
| GEORGIA RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION TRUST FUND | $10,000 |
| THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $9,209 |
| CRU | $8,000 |
| THE AREOPAQUS | $6,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $5,000 |
| STAND TO REASON | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| THE NAVIGATORS | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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
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.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 55% 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
- AIANSWERS IN GENESIS INC7× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +100%
- GRGEORGIA RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION TRUST FUND7× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +68%
- BMBLACKABY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL7× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- CBCENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $900
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 glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
The mission statement of the Christian Research Institute is to provide Christians worldwide with carefully researched information and well-reasoned answers that encourage them in their faith and equip them to intelligently represent it to…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Bible Thinker, Inc is a ministry dedicated to equipping people to think and live biblically. There are three main areas of teaching that we focus on:1. Teaching accurate theology based on exegeting the text of the Bible and confronting…
Biblical worldview advancement
Alpha and Omega Ministries seeks to provide a faithful and accurate response to the many challenges presented to the Christian Church in the modern world. Based firmly upon an unflinching commitment to the Bible as the Word of God and to…
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
The organization works for the civil liberties of atheists and the total, absolute separation of government and religion.
The mission of the ankerberg theological research institute is to reach viewers and listeners for the gospel of christ through radio tv, and internet evangelism via the john ankerberg show.
The purpose of this corporation is international biblical education and the activities that make that goal possible. we seek to come alongside church bodies who desire to study god's work and assist them to teach their leaders a solid,…
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 17 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 ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLACKABY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AREOPAGUS INC ↗
- Who funds THE OBRIA GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds STAND TO REASON ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Individual Freedom Fund 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.