Delaware · Nonprofit
LIBERATION VENTURES INC
LIBERATION VENTURES INC (Delaware) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,408,481 to it, the largest being POLICYLINK ($1,669,986). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Liberation Ventures Inc does
Mission
Liberation ventures is a field catalyst accelerating the movement working towards reparations for slavery and its legacies. Long term, we are building a culture of repair for all people in the united states. As a field catalyst, we mobilize resources, spread narratives, and strengthen movement capacity to make comprehensive reparations common sense and commonplace in our lifetime. We know reparations for black people unlocks true belonging for us all, and enables a just multiracial democracy. This american dream a dream in our name is not only achievable, but necessary for our society to survive and thrive.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Spreading narratives - the organization develops narratives, stories, and messages to help build public support for racial repair and to create the conditions for a successful reparations movement, including by publishing articles and collaborating with academics and think tanks to develop supportive data and analysis. As liberation ventures expands, it plans to further spread those narratives through small-group learning, books, podcasts, k-16 educational programs, and visual and performing arts.
$136,238 spent99% of program spendingStrengthening relationships and movement capacity - liberation ventures coordinates and encourages greater collaboration between the different organizations, academic or think-tank researchers, and policy developers working on reparations. In connection with this capacity-building work, the organization hosts events to connect those stakeholders. It also intends to develop training programs, research agendas, research databases, and forms of technical assistance that support those stakeholders' work.
$731 spent1% of program spendingMobilizing resources - liberation ventures raises funds for and issues grants to organizations whose mission is aligned with the organization's exempt purposes and whose work focuses on racial justice, racial repair, and reparations. Pursuant to a long-term grantmaking strategy liberation ventures is developing, the organization works with funders and philanthropy-serving organizations to identify and cultivate new donors.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $136,969.
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.
Chief executive
Aria Florant
President and CEO
Board chair
Megan Francis
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of LIBERATION VENTURES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 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
LIBERATION VENTURES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
60% 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 LIBERATION VENTURES INC.
“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.
Where its funders are
LIBERATION VENTURES INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 8 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $456k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
LIBERATION VENTURES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LIBERATION VENTURES 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIBERATION VENTURES INC?
- LIBERATION VENTURES INC (Delaware) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,408,481 to it, the largest being POLICYLINK ($1,669,986). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIBERATION VENTURES INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $5,408,481 in grants to LIBERATION VENTURES INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIBERATION VENTURES INC?
- POLICYLINK is the largest funder on record, with $1,669,986 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIBERATION VENTURES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 21 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