Wisconsin · Nonprofit
FFRF ACTION FUND INC
FFRF ACTION FUND INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,800,000 to it, the largest being FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC ($1,800,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $627k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $147k
What Ffrf Action Fund Inc does
Mission
Develop and advocate for legislation, regulations and government programs to preserve the constitutional principle of separation between state and church, to advocate for the rights and views of nonbelievers, and to conduct research and publicize the views of elected officials concerning religious liberty issues.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Ffrf action fund created its website, with an invitation to "become an advocate" to receive legislative action alerts at the federal, state and local level, along with links for news releases, blogs, a mission statement, board information and a section on secular issues. It launched a "secularist of the week" to honor or acknowledge public officials and others who promote state/church separation and true religious liberty and a "theocrat of the week" to educate about public officials seeking to undermine the first amendment. It rolled out a dynamic scorecard for the u.s. House based on membership in the congressional freethought caucus and cosponsorship of key bills, with 15 members achieving perfect scores. Its signature federal legislation was the health share transparency act, to protect consumers from the deceptive practices of health care sharing ministries. Ffrf action fund was able to locate story-tellers who had suffered due to the lack of government oversight.on the state level, ffrf action fund worked with a coalition to end child marriage in the united states, with three states passing laws setting the marriage age at 18 with no exceptions, including for religion. Ffrf…
$408,144 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $408,144.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $150k to $395k (+164%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of FFRF ACTION FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $150k → $500k.
From the IRS filings of FFRF ACTION FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of FFRF ACTION FUND INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FFRF ACTION FUND INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,718 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,718 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like FFRF ACTION FUND INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FFRF ACTION FUND INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FFRF ACTION FUND INC?
- FFRF ACTION FUND INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,800,000 to it, the largest being FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC ($1,800,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FFRF ACTION FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,800,000 in grants to FFRF ACTION FUND INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FFRF ACTION FUND INC?
- FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FFRF ACTION FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing