New York · Public charity
The Freedom Fund
We identify and invest in the most effective frontline efforts to eradicate modern slavery in the countries and sectors where it is most prevalent. Partnering with visionary investors, governments, anti-slavery organizations and those at risk of exploitation, we tackle the systems that allow slavery to persist and thrive. Working…
- $11M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $2.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $120,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $38M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations The Freedom Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k 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 | 17 | $2.3M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $2.9M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $2.4M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $1.2M | 11% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $1.4M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $1.4M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $1.1M | 30% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $1.8M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Human Trafficking Legal Center | $2,831,006 | 8 | 58% |
| Transparentem Ltd | $2,385,000 | 8 | 34% |
| Polaris Project | $1,955,625 | 8 | 3% |
| The Population Council Inc | $1,020,780 | 5 | 0% |
| Free the Slaves | $894,125 | 8 | 7% |
| Corporate Accountability Lab | $768,225 | 6 | 48% |
| Survivor Alliance | $689,519 | 7 | 44% |
| Greenpeace Fund Inc | $620,000 | 3 | 1% |
| San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation | $521,021 | 3 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $381,086 | 3 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
The Freedom Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Humanity United · The Ford Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · National Endowment for Democracy · Novo Foundation · New Venture Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Humanity United Action · Avina Americas Inc
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to The Freedom Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About The Freedom Fund
- How much does The Freedom Fund give?
- The Freedom Fund reported 20 itemized grants totaling $2,526,998, out of $10,847,966 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Freedom Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (37%), Crime & Legal (20%), Human Services (17%).
- Who are The Freedom Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Human Trafficking Legal Center ($2.8M), Transparentem Ltd ($2.4M), Polaris Project ($2.0M).
- Does The Freedom Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Freedom Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Humanity United, The Ford Foundation, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc.
- Where is The Freedom Fund based?
- The Freedom Fund is based in NY.
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