FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

X20Z

Classification

1200

Street

PO BOX 750

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• FFRF ACTION FUND INC

  EIN 88-3093826

Mission and programs · 2025

• LAWSUITS CHALLENGING UNCONSTITUTIONAL ENTANGLEMENTS OF RELIGION AND GOVERNMENT, GOVERNMENT ENDORSEMENT OR PROMOTION OF RELIGION. FFRF FILED 6 NEW LAWSUITS, INCLUDING ONE IN STATE COURT IN ILLINOIS, WHERE, BARELY A MONTH AFTER FILING A CHALLENGE OF A TEN COMMANDMENTS MONUMENT ON COURTHOUSE PROPERTY, THE CASE WAS FAVORABLY SETTLED WHEN JEFFERSON COUNTY REMOVED THE MONOLITH. FIVE NEW CHALLENGES OF STATE LAWS REQUIRING POSTING OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE FILED WITH A COALITION REPRESENTING A VARIETY OF RELIGIOUS AND NONRELIGIOUS PLAINTIFFS, INCLUDING TWO IN ARKANSAS FEDERAL COURT AND THREE IN TEXAS FEDERAL COURT. FFRF FILED SUIT IN OCTOBER 2025, ON BEHALF OF FFRF MEMBER JAMES REEL, A VETERAN, WHO WANTED TO CONTINUE SERVING HIS COUNTRY BY BECOMING A POLL WORKER BUT WAS REQUIRED TO TAKE A RELIGIOUS OATH. FFRF AND A COALITION FILED SUIT IN STATE COURT IN MAY 2025 ON BEHALF OF RESIDENTS TO HALT THE INSTALLATION OF TWO STATUES COSTING TAXPAYERS AT LEAST $850,000 DEPICTING CATHOLIC SAINTS AT A NEW PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDING IN QUINCY, MASS. IN JANUARY 2025, FFRF FILED A STATE LAWSUIT IN DANE COUNTY, WIS., ON BEHALF OF THREE HOMEOWNERS, CHALLENGING A TAX LAW CREATED TO BENEFIT TWO EXTREMELY LUCRATIVE CHURCH-OWNED PROPERTIES DESIGNED FOR STUDENT RENTERS. ADDITIONALLY FFRF IS DEFENDING AN APPEALS COURT VICTORY WON IN 2018 PROHIBITING SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS FROM OPENING PUBLIC MEETINGS WITH PRAYER IN CHINO VALLEY, CALIF. THIS LITIGATION JOINED ONGOING LAWSUITS INCLUDING ONE FILED WITH A COALITION IN FEDERAL COURT IN 2024 CHALLENGING A LOUISIANA LAW REQUIRING TEN COMMANDMENTS TO BE DISPLAYED IN EACH PUBLIC SCHOOL CLASSROOM AND A CASE IN FEDERAL COURT IN ARKANSAS CHALLENGING A TEN COMMANDMENTS MONUMENT AT THE STATE CAPITOL. ADDITIONALLY TWO OKLAHOMA CASES WERE DISMISSED: ONE CHALLENGING A MANDATE TO INCORPORATE THE BIBLE INTO ALL CURRICULA, AND ANOTHER AGAINST THE STATE VIRTUAL CHARTER SCHOOL BOARD, AFTER VIOLATIONS WERE ENDED.FFRF RESPONDED TO 1,892 REPORTS OF CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS, SENT MORE THAN 603 FORMAL COMPLAINT LETTERS PLUS 870 FOLLOW-UPS TO VIOLATING GOVERNMENT ACTORS, MOSTLY IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, RESULTING IN 212 SIGNIFICANT CONSTITUTIONAL VICTORIES. IN ADDITION, FFRF FILED AMICUS BRIEFS IN 7 OTHER STATE/CHURCH LAWSUITS.

  Expenses $1,925,993

• EDUCATIONAL EVENTS, AWARDS. FFRF TOPPED MORE THAN 42,000 MEMBERS, AND HELD ITS 48TH ANNUAL NATIONAL CONVENTION IN MYRTLE BEACH, S.C., WITH MORE THAN 500 ATTENDEES REPRESENTING MOST STATES. FFRF ALSO CO-HOSTED THE SCOPES TRIAL CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE IN TENNESSEE ATTRACTING ABOUT 250 PARTICIPANTS. LEGAL AND LEGISLATIVE STAFF SPOKE AT 21 EVENTS, INVOLVING CHAPTERS AND DIVERSE CONFERENCES, AND CO-PRESIDENTS SPOKE OR DEBATED AT 10 EVENTS INCLUDING IN PERU, PARAGUAY, GEORGIA, OHIO, TENNESSEE AND NEW YORK. FFRF AWARDED ABOUT $139,000 IN ESSAY CONTEST SCHOLARSHIPS TO 80 STUDENT WINNERS; TUITION SCHOLARSHIPS TO 14 STUDENTS WHO WERE FIRST-IN-FAMILY TO ATTEND COLLEGE AND HUMANIST HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN CONJUNCTION WITH PARTNERS, AND 15 STUDENT ACTIVIST SCHOLARSHIPS, SOME AWARDED IN CONJUNCTION WITH A STUDENT GROUP. FFRF HOSTED, WITH PARTNERS, THE SECOND CONGRESSIONAL REASON RECEPTION ON THE HILL.

  Expenses $4,328,944 · Grants $381,390 · Revenue $117,725

• PUBLISHING, BROADCASTING, AND EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH. FFRF PUBLISHED 10 ISSUES OF FREETHOUGHT TODAY NEWSPAPER; BROADCAST WEEKLY EDITIONS OF FREETHOUGHT RADIO ON RADIO STATIONS IN 10 STATES, WITH PODCASTS REACHING MORE THAN 2 MILLION DOWNLOADS SINCE BEGINNING IN 2006. PRODUCED 20 FINAL EPISODES OF "FREETHOUGHT MATTERS" TV SHOW, WHICH AIRED WEEKLY IN 6 MAJOR CITIES AND ON YOUTUBE. AIRED "FFRF'S ASK AN ATHEIST"/"SECULAR SPOTLIGHT" REGULARLY ON YOUTUBE. PRODUCED A MONTHLY "WE DISSENT" PODCAST WITH OTHER SECULAR ORGANIZATIONS SHOWCASING SECULAR WOMEN ATTORNEYS. MAINTAINED FFRF'S WEBSITE WITH LEGAL AND FREETHOUGHT NEWS AND RESOURCES. SOCIAL MEDIA INCLUDES 466K FACEBOOK FRIENDS, 87.1K FOLLOWERS ON X, 16.3K ON BLUE SKY, 25.3K ON INSTAGRAM AND 29.6 ON TIKTOK. FFRF ISSUED ABOUT 314 NEWS RELEASES ABOUT FFRF ACTIVITIES AND 110 BLOG POSTINGS. PUBLISHED A FREETHOUGHT CALENDAR AND DISTRIBUTED BOOKS AND EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTS PROMOTING ITS PURPOSES. RAN PERIODIC ADS IN THE NATION, PROGRESSIVE, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, NEW YORK TIMES. RAN ADS ON CBS, MSNBC AND COMEDY CENTRAL. FFRF PLACED VARIOUS COMMERCIALS, INCLUDING LIVE READS BY HOSTS, ON SIRIUSXM AND ABOUT 20 PODCASTS WITH MORE THAN 15,00 PLACEMENTS AND NEARLY 13 MILLION IMPRESSIONS THROUGH DIGITAL ADS ALONE. FFRF MAINTAINED 23 CHAPTERS AROUND THE COUNTRY.

  Expenses $1,301,240 · Revenue $275,606

• OPERATION OF FREETHOUGHT HALL IN MADISON, WI, AND MAINTENANCE OF LIBRARY FOR MEMBERS' USE, AND CHAPTER REBATES

  Expenses $1,431,369 · Grants $650,000

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $15,351,878

  Expenses

  $10,832,635

  Contributions

  $14,207,242

  Grants paid

  $1,031,390

• 2023

  Revenue

  $7,663,963

  Expenses

  $10,073,846

  Contributions

  $6,912,229

  Grants paid

  $1,377,855

• 2022

  Revenue

  $11,152,202

  Expenses

  $9,851,341

  Contributions

  $10,255,233

  Grants paid

  $550,944

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,398,786

  Expenses

  $8,363,117

  Assets (EOY)

  $25,982,708

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $12,928,696

  Expenses

  $6,573,302

  Assets (EOY)

  $24,045,932

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,106,724

  Expenses

  $7,603,889

  Assets (EOY)

  $15,419,685

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,877,277

  Expenses

  $5,407,285

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,242,649

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,322,972

  Expenses

  $4,478,081

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,447,724

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,938,422

  Expenses

  $3,635,168

  Assets (EOY)

  $15,069,866

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,931,682

  Expenses

  $3,765,032

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,673,296

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,263,502

  Expenses

  $2,465,656

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,790,767

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,878,938

  Expenses

  $2,163,375

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,857,996

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $2,240,502

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,842,021

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• FFRF ACTION FUND

  $650,000

  2025 · OPERATING AND LOBBYING GRANT

• FFRF ACTION FUND

  $500,000

  2023 · OPERATING AND LOBBYING GRANT

• UW WHITEWATER

  $500,000

  2023 · ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP

• FFRF ACTION FUND

  $150,000

  2022 · OPERATING GRANT

• ENDING CLERGY ABUSE USA

  $50,000

  2023 · OPERATING GRANT

• CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

  $50,000

  2025 · OPERATING GRANT

• DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC

  $30,000

  2025 · OPERATING GRANT

• WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND

  $20,000

  2022 · DIRECT ASSISTANCE

• WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND

  $20,000

  2023 · DIRECT ASSISTANCE

• ABORTION COALITION FOR TELEMEDICINE

  $20,000

  2025 · OPERATING GRANT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $323,703

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $305,775

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $222,616

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $214,443

  2024 · RELIGION RELATED

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $214,300

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $206,199

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $153,713

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $152,629

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $129,417

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THE SEATTLE FOUNDATION

  $100,000

  2023 · TO PROVIDE GENERAL SUPPORT.

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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