Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE FREEDOM FORUM INC
THE FREEDOM FORUM INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $568,440 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($206,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
THE FREEDOM FORUM INC's revenue fell 74% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 828 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Incshared funders
- Bavarian Foundation Trustportfolio match
- Human Rights 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $10k → $163k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 THE FREEDOM FORUM 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.
How concentrated its funding is
THE FREEDOM FORUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 THE FREEDOM FORUM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 75% · 2022 50% · 2023 61% — 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.
Where its funders are
74% of THE FREEDOM FORUM INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $148k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $421k 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.
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. Your 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
- Bavarian Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Human Rights Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- America First Works Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joel and Rachel Bomgar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calyx Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Van Curler Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Future Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ardleigh Impact Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Highland Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dunn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atlas Economic Research 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 FREEDOM FORUM INC
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FREEDOM FORUM 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.
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 FREEDOM FORUM INC?
- THE FREEDOM FORUM INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $568,440 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($206,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE FREEDOM FORUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $568,440 in grants to THE FREEDOM FORUM INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FREEDOM FORUM INC?
- Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $206,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FREEDOM FORUM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing