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FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN FREEDOM

EIN 46-5511681 ALEXANDRIA, VA

Revenue 2025
$7,662,000
Expenses 2025
$7,631,894

Program services were 98.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Z99
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1060

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN FREEDOM FUNDS, PROMOTES, SPONSORS, AND FACILITATES INDEPENDENT NONPARTISAN EDUCATIONAL AND RELATED ACTIVITIES DEDICATED TO IMPROVING THE LIVES OF AMERICANS.

  • PROVIDED GRANTS SUPPORTING INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC, HELPING AMERICANS BETTER UNDERSTAND THE ACTIONS OF THEIR ELECTED OFFICIALS AND THE STATE OF THEIR DEMOCRACY AND CULTURE.

    Expenses $7,506,580 · Grants $7,500,000

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • Kelly Lindquist Ray

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $33,000
    From this org
    $33,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Emily MacLean

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $33,000
    From this org
    $33,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Jaime Sneider

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mary Katharine Fountain

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $33,000
    From this org
    $33,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $7,662,000
    Expenses
    $7,631,894
    Contributions
    $7,662,000
    Grants paid
    $7,500,000
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $10,045,000
    Expenses
    $9,892,377
    Contributions
    $10,045,000
    Grants paid
    $9,797,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,950,000
    Expenses
    $6,995,294
    Contributions
    $6,950,000
    Grants paid
    $6,904,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,895,500
    Expenses
    $6,219,362
    Contributions
    $5,895,500
    Grants paid
    $6,130,000

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
    $6,195,500
    Expenses
    $6,019,478
    Assets (EOY)
    $368,633

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,330,500
    Expenses
    $5,568,874
    Assets (EOY)
    $262,611

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,470,000
    Expenses
    $5,264,074
    Assets (EOY)
    $430,986

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,067,938
    Expenses
    $992,157
    Assets (EOY)
    $118,484

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,060,022
    Expenses
    $1,029,965
    Assets (EOY)
    $42,703

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,121,583
    Expenses
    $2,108,937
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,646

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2014

Tax period
3 April 2014 to 31 December 2014
Principal officer
Mary Katherine Brewer
Mailing address
1000 Wilson Blvd Ste 2600Arlington VA 22209

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

  • FREE BEACON LLC

    $9,797,500

    2024 EDUCATE THE PUBLIC THROUGH INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

  • FREE BEACON LLC

    $7,400,000

    2025 EDUCATE THE PUBLIC THROUGH INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

  • FREE BEACON LLC

    $6,804,000

    2023 EDUCATE THE PUBLIC THROUGH INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

  • FREE BEACON LLC

    $5,960,000

    2022 EDUCATE THE PUBLIC THROUGH INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

  • NATIONAL REVIEW

    $100,000

    2023 EDUCATE THE PUBLIC THROUGH INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

  • NATIONAL REVIEW

    $100,000

    2022 EDUCATE THE PUBLIC THROUGH INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

  • THE REASON FOUNDATION

    $50,000

    2022 EDUCATE THE PUBLIC THROUGH INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

  • THE BUCKLEY INSTITUTE

    $25,000

    2025 EDUCATE THE PUBLIC THROUGH INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

  • SUNDIAL PUBLISHING COMPANY

    $25,000

    2025 EDUCATE THE PUBLIC THROUGH INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

  • THE HARVARD SALIENT

    $25,000

    2025 EDUCATE THE PUBLIC THROUGH INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.