Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
The Freedom Forum Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $465k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 93
- Grants FY2024
- 102
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 102
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 27
- Total assets, FY2024
- $650M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 52% of the organizations The Freedom Forum Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 85 | $455k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 102 | $453k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 87 | $1.3M | 85% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $794k | 84% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $4.6M | 94% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $7.7M | 33% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $35M | 33% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $31M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newseum Inc | $51,810,161 | 5 | 79% |
| Freedom Forum Institute Inc | $28,006,954 | 6 | 99% |
| National Constitution Center | $120,000 | 4 | 0% |
| International Women's Media Foundation | $78,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Dow Jones News Fund Inc | $70,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Helen Keller International | $65,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of South Dakota Foundation | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| UND Alumni Association and Foundation | $45,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Casa Childrens Intervention Services Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Institute for Education | $35,000 | 3 | 7% |
Show all 148 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 79 recipients with no EIN on record ($377k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Freedom Forum Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 129 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Brevard Inc · United Way of Brevard County Inc · Youngbaum Foundation Inc · The Margaret Heins Foundation · Embraer Foundation Inc · Margaret R Binz Foundation Inc · Jim and Jonnie Swann Corp · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Cloudsplitter Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · Sheldon F Reese Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation
How this is measured
About The Freedom Forum Inc
- How much does The Freedom Forum Inc give?
- The Freedom Forum Inc reported 93 grants totaling $464,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 102 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Freedom Forum Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (64%), Civil Rights (34%), Education (1%).
- Who are The Freedom Forum Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Newseum Inc ($52M), Freedom Forum Institute Inc ($28M), National Constitution Center ($120k).
- Does The Freedom Forum Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Freedom Forum Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Freedom Forum Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Brevard Inc, United Way of Brevard County Inc, Youngbaum Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Freedom Forum Inc based?
- The Freedom Forum Inc is based in DC.
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