Virginia · Nonprofit
FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC
FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,356,059 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($4,054,500). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $920k
- Funders on record
- 111
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $-781057
What Freedomworks Foundation Inc does
Mission
The mission of freedomworks foundation is to educate and empower americans with the principles of individual liberty, small government, and free markets. Education is the animating force that informs the daily activities at freedomworks foundation. The organization was founded in 1984 on the campus of george mason university-a center for american free-market economic thought. Since those early days, we have continued to pursue a goal of preserving liberty by education americans about free-markets, limited government, and individual liberty.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Center for economic freedom: the foundation works to constantly engage activists across the country in order to implement its programs. Additionally, education and research programs are conducted to support the community to further its free market and limited government activities. Strategy includes strategic management and discussion about foundation development and creation of future programs. In order to ensure that the foundation is being responsive to its community and key stakeholders, the foundation will continually evaluate programs.
$1,197,789 spent95% of program spendingRegulatory action: the foundation mobilizes the community to implement the regulatory action program. The foundation uses cutting edge technology to engage its community to take part in the regulatory process. Additionally, training and support are provided to the activist community to further the foundation's regulatory engagement.
$25,217 spent2% of program spendingFreedomworks foundation's building education for students together (best) program works to educate and mobilize activists to become involved in the education of their children and the broader community. Research is conducted on education policy across the united states. Activists learn about the different roles of school boards, superintendents, teachers, and parents within the education system.
$37,825 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,260,831.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.8M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Paul Beckner
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $520k → $3.0M.
16 of 111 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $800k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Freedomworks Inc); $100k from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Modzelewski Charitable Tr US 100196). These are real filings, and they are not money FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 111 funders by total. 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.
How concentrated its funding is
FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
56% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 62% · 2019 20% · 2020 26% · 2021 26% · 2022 26% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 30 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Organizations like FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 34 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Freedomworks Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION 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 FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC?
- FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,356,059 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($4,054,500). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 111 organizations giving $20,356,059 in grants to FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC, 66 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC?
- Donors Trust Inc is the largest funder on record, with $4,054,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 111 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