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Woodhull Freedom Foundation

The WOODHULL FREEDOM FOUNDATION is a non-profit organization that works through research, advocacy and public education to affirm sexual freedom as a human right.

$249k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Youth Development$55kPhilanthropy$53kHuman Services$31kCommunity Improvement$15kCivil Rights$15kArts & Culture$5k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $121,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $249,166 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $127,966 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$15,100
Median grant
4
States reached
$970k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CUPCAKE GIRLS$55,000
SWOP BEHIND BARS INC$31,000
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS$15,100
PEACE DEVOPMENT FUND$15,000
BROOKLYN GHOST PROJECT$5,100
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 (FY24–24, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SWOP BEHIND BARS INC: $31k → 13%THE CUPCAKE GIRLS: $55k → 13%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.
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 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.

1
Swop Minneapolis

Advocating for Minneapolis erotic laborers.

Education
2
Sex Workers Outreach Project

A national grassroots social justice network dedicated to the fundamental human rights of sex workers and their communities focusing on ending violence and stigma through education community building and advocacy.

Employment
3
Together in Service

SWOPLA stands for Sex Workers Outreach Project Los Angeles. We are a peer support organization, run by sex workers and for sex workers. Our mission is to pursue our human rights to bodily autonomy, racial and social justice, and mutual…

Public Benefit
4
Spiral Collective

The SPIRAL Collective is a BIPOC-centered full spectrum reproductive care work collective.

Health
5
Stichting Womens Initiatives for Gender Justice

Ending impunity for conflict related sexual violence

International
6
Surveillance Technology Oversight Project Inc

S.t.o.p. litigates and advocates for privacy, working to abolish local governments' systems of mass surveillance. our work highlights the discriminatory impact of surveillance on muslim americans, immigrants, the lgbtq+ community,…

Civil Rights
7
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
8
Sexual Assault Support Services

To create opportunities for survivors of sexual violence and their supporters to find healing, justice, and liberation. We support people who have experienced sexual violence in any form, including intimate partner violence, family…

Health
9
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
10
Black Phoenix Organizing Collective

We prioritize the needs of Black people through two programs: Disability Justice and Reproductive Justice. We believe that supporting mental healthcare, holding and creating space for vulnerability is a piece of how we free ourselves as…

Food & Nutrition
11
Switch

Switch's mission is to end human trafficking and sexual exploitation in the upstate of south carolina focusing on awareness, demand, intervention, prevention and restoration.

Human Services
12
Seeding Justice

Seeding justice builds collective power by transforming philanthropy and funding movements, in the pursuit of justice and liberation for all communities. our programs are based on trust, relationships, and partnership. they are founded on…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cupcake Girls; the most unlike its peers is Sw Community Care Project 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

4 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. 4 of the 6 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
1/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CUPCAKE GIRLS: $55,000 · Human ServicesTHE CUPCAKE GIRLSSWOP BEHIND BARS INC: $31,000 · Human ServicesSWOP BEHIND BARS INCCANDID: $52,670 · PhilanthropyCANDIDPEACE DEVOPMENT FUND: $15,000 · OtherPEACE DEVOPME…BROOKLYN GHOST PROJECT INC: $5,100 · OtherBROOKLYN GHOS…SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $15,100 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AN…
Human Services$86,000Philanthropy$52,670Other$20,100Environment$15,100

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CUPCAKE GIRLS: $55,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCANDID: $52,670 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSWOP BEHIND BARS INC: $31,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $15,100 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
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    How do I get to Woodhull Freedom Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Woodhull Freedom Foundation 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.

    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 6 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 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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