Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Knowledge Freedom Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $361k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $78,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 59
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The Knowledge Freedom Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $361k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $453k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $713k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $678k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $428k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $382k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Clear Fund | $476,500 | 6 | 0% |
| 1infinitelife | $354,000 | 4 | 100% |
| Givedirectly Inc | $256,500 | 6 | 0% |
| New Incentives | $162,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Malaria Consortium US Inc | $112,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Helen Keller International | $87,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Alameda County Community Food Bank | $77,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Against Malaria Foundation | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Matthew 25 Ministries Inc | $72,800 | 6 | 0% |
| Meds & Food for Kids | $65,400 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($307k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Knowledge Freedom Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About The Knowledge Freedom Foundation
- How much does The Knowledge Freedom Foundation give?
- The Knowledge Freedom Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $361,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 59 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Knowledge Freedom Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (44%), Religion (17%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are The Knowledge Freedom Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Clear Fund ($477k), 1infinitelife ($354k), Givedirectly Inc ($257k).
- Does The Knowledge Freedom Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Knowledge Freedom Foundation 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 Knowledge Freedom Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Tides Foundation.
- Where is The Knowledge Freedom Foundation based?
- The Knowledge Freedom Foundation is based in MA.
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