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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 FY2024still arriving
93
Grants FY2024still arriving
27
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$52MCivil Rights$28MEducation$537kPublic Benefit$87kHuman Services$81kHealth$80kInternational$75kCrime & Legal$53kOther$0
02FY2024 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k78 grants · $225k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $240k
$2,500
Median grant
27
States reached
$650M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION$25,000
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION$25,000
DOW JONES NEWS FUND$25,000
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER$25,000
UND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AND FOUNDATION$25,000
HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION$15,000
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER$10,000
HEALTH FIRST FOUNDATION INC$10,000
EAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA$10,000
THE CORNELL DAILY SUN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$10,000
PELETAH MINISTRIES$10,000
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION$10,000
FOOLPROOF FOUNDATION$10,000
INSITUTE FOR EDUCATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%SAFE FUTURES: $6k → 9%JAMES FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%SOUTH BREVARD SHARING CENTER: $1k → 10%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $5k → 8%THE JAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%SOUTH BREVARD SHARING CENTER: $1k → 10%JAMES FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%TICONDEROGA AREA BACKPACK PROGRAM: $1k → 13%TICONDEROGA AREA BACKPACK PROGRAM: $1k → 13%TICONDEROGA AREA BACKPACK PROGRAM: $1k → 13%SILVER BAY ASSOCIATION: $3k → 13%SILVER BAY ASSOCIATION: $2k → 13%AGING MATTERS: $6k → 10%AGING MATTERS: $5k → 10%AGING MATTERS IN BREVARD: $3k → 10%SOUTH BREVARD WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $3k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY OF BREVARD INC: $1k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY OF BREVARD INC: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$81M · 82 repeat orgs$361k to everyone else

82 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
111

Total granted

$81M
$250k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+16%

Still filing today

61%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NC
    NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $120k · revenue +254%
  • IW
    INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $78k · revenue +11%
  • DJ
    DOW JONES NEWS FUND INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $70k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • OO
    ONLY ONE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +15%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOME SHELTER FOR FAMILY SAFETY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • NM
    NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC)
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -23%
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.

04Its field

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.

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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
6
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
10
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
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DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
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Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fordham University; the most unlike its peers is Dow Jones News Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

141 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. 141 of the 237 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
138/141
Grantees still filing
93/141
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEWSEUM INC: $51,810,161 · OtherNEWSEUM INCFREEDOM FORUM INSTITUTE INC: $28,006,954 · OtherFREEDOM FORUM INSTITUTE INC+122 more: $747,570 · OtherNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $120,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION: $78,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC): $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHELOSTCHURCHORG INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $35,500 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $55,000 · EducationUND Alumni Association and Foundation: $45,000 · EducationSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationVanderbilt University: $17,000 · EducationTHE GRIDIRON CLUB AND FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationTHE CORNELL DAILY SUN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $11,000 · EducationCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationUNC HUSSMAN SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND MEDIA FOUNDATION: $9,000 · Education+37 more: $86,000 · EducationJAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesSPACE COAST PRIDE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL OF BREVARD COUNTY INC: $13,500 · Human ServicesSafe Futures Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesSILVER BAY ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN CONFERENCES AND TRAINING: $5,000 · Human ServicesThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $5,000 · Human ServicesTICONDEROGA AREA BACKPACK PROGRAM INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH BREVARD WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $2,500 · Human Services+2 more: $4,000 · Human ServicesHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $65,000 · InternationalCASA CHILDRENS INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $40,000 · Civil RightsStart Empowerment Inc: $7,500 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION: $35,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · Health
Other$80,564,685Arts & Culture$293,500Education$270,000Human Services$69,000International$65,000Civil Rights$47,500Health$40,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEWSEUM INC: $51,810,161 over 5y, 79% of budgetFREEDOM FORUM INSTITUTE INC: $28,006,954 over 6y, 99% of budgetNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $120,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION: $78,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDOW JONES NEWS FUND INC: $70,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUND Alumni Association and Foundation: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASA CHILDRENS INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION: $35,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetTHE FOOLPROOF FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST VINCENT DEPAUL MIDDLETOWN: $19,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVanderbilt University: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC: $16,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetJAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetREBIRTH AND DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL OF BREVARD COUNTY INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRIDIRON CLUB AND FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTHE CORNELL DAILY SUN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $11,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetONLY ONE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC): $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAssociation for Traditional Studies: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSurfside Players Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetEAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHELOSTCHURCHORG INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPROMISE INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNC HUSSMAN SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND MEDIA FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAMLIN SCHOOL: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTERNE SCHOOL: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStart Empowerment Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA OPERA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNorthwestern University: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSafe Futures Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBREVARD ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER BAY ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN CONFERENCES AND TRAINING: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …United Way of Brevard…Youngbaum Foundation …The Margaret Heins Fo…Embraer Foundation IncMargaret R Binz Found…Jim and Jonnie Swann …Sioux Falls Area Comm…Cloudsplitter Foundat…South Dakota Communit…Sheldon F Reese Found…Ge Aerospace Foundati…
Community Foundation for Brevard IncFL32.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Freedom Forum Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Freedom Forum Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • South Brevard Women's Center Inc: 45% of income from government
  • A Safe Place Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Brevard Achievement Center Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Presencing Institute Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Safe Futures Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • St Vincent Depaul Middletown: 6% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Community Services Council of Brevard County Inc: 2% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University: 1% of income from government
  • Bentley University: 1% of income from government
  • United Way of Brevard County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • East Coast Zoological Society of Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Promise Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College: 0% of income from government
  • Central Brevard Humane Society Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Haven for Children Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 237 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home