· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k7 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $33,500 |
| ANSWERS IN GENESIS | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Individual Freedom Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Individual Freedom Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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