Freedom Together Foundation
Invitation OnlyNew York, New York · EIN 90-0747216 · Private foundation · Website
Grants paid (2024)$470M
Organizations funded595
Typical grant$500,000
Total assets$4.1B
Half of its grants to organizations were between $225,000 and $860,000.
From the return
How to apply
On its return for tax year 2024 the foundation checked the box saying it only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds.
What it funds
Share of grant lines on the latest return, classified from the purpose each grant states.
Where it gives
73% of grants went outside New York.
Grants paid in tax year 2024
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Meridian Partners Inc | New York, NY | Blue meridian partners: general partnership recommitment | $14,000,000 |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | Solidarity fund | $12,500,000 |
| Movement Strategy Center | Oakland, CA | Energy efficiency for all | $8,000,000 |
| Voter Registration Project | Washington, DC | General operating support | $8,000,000 |
| Community Change | Washington, DC | Toward a freedom to thrive | $7,000,000 |
| Community Change | Washington, DC | 2024 civic engagement rapid response | $6,500,000 |
| New Venture Fund | Washington, DC | Trusted elections fund | $6,250,000 |
| Windward Fund | Washington, DC | Advancing environmental justice through the fund to build grassroots power | $6,150,000 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | The picower institute innovation fund (piif) | $5,550,000 |
| Bend the Arc a Jewish Partnership for Justice | New York, NY | Youth organizing for climate action and racial equity | $5,000,000 |
| Bridgespan Group Inc | Boston, MA | Bridgespan knowledge & innovation fund | $5,000,000 |
| Center for American Progress | Washington, DC | Strengthening democracy by advancing economic and racial justice | $5,000,000 |
| Equal Justice Initiative | Montgomery, AL | Changing the narrative: racial justice reform in america | $5,000,000 |
| Foundation for City College | New York, NY | Leadership for democracy and social justice | $5,000,000 |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc | New York, NY | Collaborative for gender + reproductive equity | $5,000,000 |
| Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | Washington, DC | Advancing strategies to reduce poverty and increase opportunity | $4,500,000 |
| Elevate Energy | Chicago, IL | National approach to scaling efficiency in affordable housing | $4,500,000 |
| Harlem Children's Zone Inc | New York, NY | Economic mobility | $4,500,000 |
| Trust for Public Land | San Francisco, CA | Knowledge into action: improve access and equity, innovate policy, leverage funding, build local partnerships and capacity, and strengthen… | $4,500,000 |
| Bridgespan Group Inc | Boston, MA | For the bridgespan institute | $4,000,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | New York, NY | Meeting the moment and working towards an equitable future through patient-centered reproductive health care | $4,000,000 |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc | New York, NY | Abundant futures fund | $4,000,000 |
| Miami Foundation Inc | Miami, FL | Reimagining the civic commons 3.0 | $3,500,000 |
| New School | New York, NY | Healthy affordable materials project (hamp) | $3,375,000 |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | Funders for housing and opportunity | $3,330,000 |
| Goodnation Foundation | New York, NY | A unified effort to expand charitable funding community + resource critical non-partisan priorities | $3,000,000 |
| Grid Alternatives | Oakland, CA | National clean energy workforce development program | $3,000,000 |
| Tides Foundation | San Francisco, CA | Organizational health fund | $3,000,000 |
| Windward Fund | Washington, DC | Global methane hub's methane and environmental justice project | $3,000,000 |
| Fund for Public Health in New York Inc | New York, NY | School based health center (sbhc) reproductive health project (rhp) | $2,820,000 |
| Neo Philanthropy Inc | New York, NY | Four freedoms fund and black migrant power fund | $2,750,000 |
| 350Org | Boston, MA | Accelerating the just transition to renewable energy in the US | $2,500,000 |
| Earthjustice | San Francisco, CA | Leveraging the power of the law to build healthy & equitable communities | $2,500,000 |
| National League of Cities Institute Inc | Washington, DC | Cities connecting children to nature resiliently | $2,500,000 |
| Solutions Project Inc | Oakland, CA | Let's create the future: capacity building strategies for climate justice solutions | $2,250,000 |
| State Democracy Defenders Fund | Concord, NH | Rapid response coordination hub | $2,250,000 |
| United States Endowment for Forestry and Communities Inc | Greenville, SC | Sustainable forestry and african american land retention program | $2,250,000 |
| State Power Fund | Youngstown, OH | Bigger we project via state power fund | $2,060,000 |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | Build US | $2,000,000 |
| National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States | Washington, DC | African american cultural heritage action fund | $2,000,000 |
| Ndn Collective Inc | Rapid City, SD | Strengthening indigenous self determination | $2,000,000 |
| Neo Philanthropy Inc | New York, NY | State infrastructure fund | $2,000,000 |
| New Venture Fund | Washington, DC | Climate and clean energy equity fund | $2,000,000 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | Jpb environmental health fellowship program cohort III | $1,900,000 |
| Chinese Progressive Association | San Francisco, CA | To support the black futures lab | $1,750,000 |
| Florida Rising Together | Miami, FL | General operating support | $1,750,000 |
| Institute for Sustainable Communities | Montpelier, VT | Cultivating isc and the partnership for resilient communities leaders of color network | $1,750,000 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc | Calabasas, CA | Transforming systems through community-led design | $1,750,000 |
| Center for Popular Democracy Inc | Brooklyn, NY | General operating support | $1,700,000 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | Picower fellows program | $1,690,000 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | Sustainability, diversity, and environmental justice | $1,650,000 |
| Connecticut Children's Medical Center Foundation Inc | Hartford, CT | Building capacity for goal concordant early childhood systems | $1,625,000 |
| Immigrant Legal Resource Center | San Francisco, CA | The new americans campaign and ilrc program support | $1,625,000 |
| United We Dream Network Inc | Washington, DC | General operating support | $1,600,000 |
| Alliance for Youth Organizing | Washington, DC | General operating support | $1,500,000 |
| American Forests | Washington, DC | Mobilizing tree equity nationwide | $1,500,000 |
| Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Inc | Baltimore, MD | Addressing racial equity by advancing healthy, lead safe and energy efficient homes for america's lowest income communities | $1,500,000 |
| National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc | New York, NY | A good jobs plan for domestic workers | $1,500,000 |
| National Immigration Law Center | Los Angeles, CA | Defending and advancing economic opportunity and justice for low-income immigrants | $1,500,000 |
| National Immigration Law Center | Los Angeles, CA | Protecting immigrant families coalition | $1,500,000 |
Showing the 60 largest of 595 grants to organizations.
Grants approved for future payment
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | The picower institute innovation fund (piif) | $11,100,000 |
| Neo Philanthropy Inc | New York, NY | Four freedoms fund and black migrant power fund | $2,500,000 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | Molecular and cellular mechanisms of parkinson's disease | $2,000,000 |
| Rockefeller University | New York, NY | Regulation of food intake and body weight: basic and translational studies | $2,000,000 |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Bronx, NY | Selective autophagy in the pathogenesis and therapeutics of parkinson's disease | $1,500,000 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | Boston, MA | Mechanisms by which bioactive lipids impact diabetes pathogenesis | $1,500,000 |
| Broad Institute Inc | Cambridge, MA | Mitochondrial dysfunction and disease: connecting the rare to the common | $1,500,000 |
| Center for Popular Democracy Inc | Brooklyn, NY | General operating support | $1,500,000 |
| Cornell University | New York, NY | Targeting maladaptive innate immune response to treat pd | $1,500,000 |
| Cornell University | New York, NY | Gene therapy for neurorestoration and neuroprotection in parkinson's disease | $1,500,000 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | Boston, MA | Pathways of energy expenditure and new therapeutics for metabolic diseases | $1,500,000 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | Exploring the role of zinc ring fingers in parkinson's disease pathogenesis | $1,500,000 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | Dr. tonegawa's research program | $1,500,000 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | Li-Huei tsai's research program | $1,500,000 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | Building, tracking, and restoring nigrostriatal circuit function using human psc-based models of parkinson's disease | $1,500,000 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | Inflammatory aspects of diabetes | $1,500,000 |
| Salk Institute for Biological Studies | LA Jolla, CA | Modeling parkinson's disease | $1,500,000 |
| Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | New York, NY | Causes and treatment of b-cell failure in diabetes | $1,500,000 |
| Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | New York, NY | Mechanisms of substantia nigra neuronal death in parkinson's disease | $1,500,000 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | The epigenomics of diabetes | $1,500,000 |
| Wnet | New York, NY | Cyberchase season 16 | $1,500,000 |
| Colorofchange Org Education Fund Inc | Oakland, CA | General operating support | $1,250,000 |
| Mountain Association for Community Economic Development Inc | Berea, KY | Building power to advance a just transition in appalachian kentucky | $1,000,000 |
| New Venture Fund | Washington, DC | Supporting aapi communities to build a multiracial and inclusive democracy | $1,000,000 |
| People's Action Institute | Chicago, IL | General operating support | $1,000,000 |
| Powerswitch Action | Oakland, CA | General operating support | $1,000,000 |
| Windward Fund | Washington, DC | Hive fund | $1,000,000 |
| Right to the City Alliance Inc | Brooklyn, NY | General operating support | $900,000 |
| National Employment Law Project | New York, NY | General operating support | $750,000 |
| New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations | New York, NY | Increasing access and opportunity for all | $750,000 |
| Sunrise Movement Education Fund | Washington, DC | General operating support | $600,000 |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | New York, NY | General operating support | $500,000 |
| City Parks Foundation Inc | New York, NY | NYC green fund campaign | $500,000 |
| National Partnership for New Americans | Chicago, IL | General operating support | $300,000 |
| Partnership for Civil Justice Fund | Washington, DC | Partnership for civil justice fund / center for protest law & litigation | $300,000 |
| Tides Center | Los Angeles, CA | Climate justice and the built environment | $300,000 |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | Capital markets hub | $250,000 |
| Inadvance | Oakland, CA | People living with aphasia network (plan) | $250,000 |
| National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy | Washington, DC | General operating support | $250,000 |
| United Hospital Fund of New York | New York, NY | Health equity fellowship program | $200,000 |
| Regents of the University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | Power and strategy project | $125,000 |
| Aaron and Martha Shift Private Foundation | Hollywood, FL | Funder-Practitioner lab | $50,000 |
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $469,974,092 | 639 |
| 2023 | $424,004,239 | 686 |
| 2022 | $359,345,731 | 537 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2024, filed Nov 17, 2025 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202513219349101966
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 90-0747216
- Profile updated Nov 4, 2026
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