Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
FREEDOMWORKS INC
FREEDOMWORKS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,653,465 to it, the largest being Justice Action Network ($722,405). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $-3097033
What Freedomworks Inc does
Mission
Freedomworks exists to mobilize the center right and politically homeless in america who do not feel their values of limited government, social tolerance, and individual liberty are being represented in political discourse today. We seek to restore common sense and competence to public policy and american political life.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Grassroots mobilization, community building, and lobbying: training, education, equipping, engaging, and mobilizing constituents across the country to advocate for limited government and liberty at the local, state, and federal level. Freedomworks, inc. Bolsters the effectiveness of its grassroots mobilization through research and direct lobbying of members of congress.
$5,272,166 spentof which $100 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,272,166.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.5M to $12M (+236%).
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. 3 of the last 7 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
Joan Carter
Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $517k → $118k.
From the IRS filings of FREEDOMWORKS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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 INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
54% 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 47% · 2019 58% · 2020 44% · 2021 67% · 2022 30% · 2023 43% — 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
48% of FREEDOMWORKS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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 INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 18 states in all.
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.
Organizations like FREEDOMWORKS 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Freedomworks Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FREEDOMWORKS 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 INC?
- FREEDOMWORKS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,653,465 to it, the largest being Justice Action Network ($722,405). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREEDOMWORKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $2,653,465 in grants to FREEDOMWORKS INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREEDOMWORKS INC?
- Justice Action Network is the largest funder on record, with $722,405 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREEDOMWORKS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 39 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