How much did THE FREEDOM FUND grant in FY2024?

THE FREEDOM FUND reported 20 grants totaling $10,847,966 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is THE FREEDOM FUND based?

THE FREEDOM FUND is based in NY.

THE FREEDOM FUND

Foundation Dossiers Mostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →

· Public charity

THE FREEDOM FUND

Demonstrating how effective interventions can protect those at risk of modern slavery and to support those experiencing modern slavery to leave the situation.

$11M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$300k

Largest

01What you fund

0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

International$6.2MCrime & Legal$2.8MHuman Services$2.8MEducation$992kEnvironment$745kArts & Culture$195kCivil Rights$130kEmployment$110kPublic Benefit$106kOther$616k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

research

2019

buildnesriinnovativestrategiescollectivecampaignspartnership

2020

movementsinnovativestrategiescollectivecampaignsbuildworking

2021

—

2022

rights

2023

rightsinternational

2024

climate rightssciencefood technologistscreateensuresafeworldwide

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k5 grants · $143k
$50k–250k12 grants · $1.5M
$250k+3 grants · $841k

$120,000

Median grant

States reached

$38M

Total assets

Largest grants

TRANSPARENTEM LTD$300,000
HUMAN TRAFFICKING LEGAL CENTRE$287,500
POLARIS$253,125
TIDES CENTER$205,000
GREENPEACE FUND$200,000
NORC$185,840
GLJ-ILRF$150,000
BUSARA CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS INC$133,108
FREE THE SLAVES$125,625
CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY LAB$120,000
INSTITUTE OF FOOD$117,000
INTERNATIONAL LABOR RIGHTS FORUM$90,000
SURVIVOR ALLIANCE US$87,000
POPULATION COUNCIL INC$80,000
CLIMATE RIGHTS$50,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$14M · 23 repeat orgs$906k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$14M

$534k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+77%

Still filing today

87%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $372k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentPublic BenefitEmploymentOther

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

N
NORC
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +143% · 58% of their budget
CA
CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY LAB
6× · 2019–2024 · $768k · revenue +1541% · 48% of their budget
SA
SURVIVOR ALLIANCE US
7× · 2018–2024 · $690k · revenue +1389% · 44% of their budget

Funded once

F
FISHWISE
one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -39%
NEO PHILANTHROPYgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +191%
TI
THE INVESTMENT INTEGRATION PROJECT
one grant, 2020 · $65k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Lawfare Institute

Produce scientific content on lawfare and the analysis of emblematic cases of the phenomenon through publication of the lawfare website, podcasts and related media.

Public Benefit

Nomogaia Foundation

Preventing/stopping non-state actors from violating human rights through field assessment, data analysis and transparent publication of findings

Civil Rights

Global Voice

—

Fair Labor Association

Improve workplace conditions and help eliminate sweatshop practices in factories around the world.

International

Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide

Philanthropy

Witness Inc

Witness helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights. the organization operates globally. witness' global team designs solutions, provides guidance, and co-develops strategies that enable human rights defenders…

International

Mukti International

To help end the exploitation of individuals around the world

Crime & Legal

Icdr International

ICDR International is a leading global movement of people striving to eliminate Caste or Work and Descent-based Discrimination CWDD, inequality and injustice. We campaign for the rights and dignity of nearly 280 million Dalits,…

Human Services

American Society of International Law

To foster the study of international law and to promote international relations on the basis of law and justice.

International

Global Policy Forum Inc

Research and education of United Nations activities

International

Shift Project Ltd

Shift works across all continents and sectors to challenge assumptions, push boundaries and redefine corporate practice in order to build a world where business gets done with respect for peoples dignity. Our work is based on the…

International

World Resources Institute

To create change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free the Slaves and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/40

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,525

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/33

Grantees still filing

23/33

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

International$6,223,362Crime & Legal$2,831,006Human Services$2,785,000Education$992,107Environment$745,000Other$961,706Arts & Culture$195,000

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.

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.

Humanity UnitedCA28.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Humanity United · The Ford Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · National Endowment for Democracy · Novo Foundation · New Venture Fund · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Humanity United Action · Avina Americas Inc

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 organisation THE 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NORC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 461349584 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NORC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 58% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Freedom Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Freedom Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE FREEDOM FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Freedom Fund?

More from the funding graph

THE FREEDOM FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Freedom Fund?

More from the funding graph