Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE CENTER FOR FREETHOUGHT EQUALITY
THE CENTER FOR FREETHOUGHT EQUALITY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $552,147 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION ($552,147). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE CENTER FOR FREETHOUGHT EQUALITY has grown faster than half of the 1,796 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,796 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- City First Enterprises Inclocal
- Stiefel Freethought Foundationportfolio match
- Freedom From Religion Foundation Incportfolio match
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 THE CENTER FOR FREETHOUGHT EQUALITY’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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $77k → $44k.
From the IRS filings of THE CENTER FOR FREETHOUGHT EQUALITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of THE CENTER FOR FREETHOUGHT EQUALITY's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- City First Enterprises InclocalDC · funds 1035 organizations near you
- Stiefel Freethought Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Freedom From Religion Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dunn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bader Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert F Agostinelli Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The 85 Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William S Knight Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James E and Edith Margaret Brandon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Henkes Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pierre F & Enid Goodrich Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE CENTER FOR FREETHOUGHT EQUALITY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- American Humanist Association · exempt
- Center for Freethought Equality PAC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CENTER FOR FREETHOUGHT EQUALITY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FREETHOUGHT EQUALITY?
- THE CENTER FOR FREETHOUGHT EQUALITY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $552,147 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION ($552,147). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CENTER FOR FREETHOUGHT EQUALITY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $552,147 in grants to THE CENTER FOR FREETHOUGHT EQUALITY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR FREETHOUGHT EQUALITY?
- THE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $552,147 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR FREETHOUGHT EQUALITY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing