Knowledge-Freedom Foundation
EIN 04-3296540 · files IRS 990-PF
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 123 grants · $1.2m
Who it funds most
21 of its 37 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Knowledge-Freedom Foundation's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 37 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2023, filing 202432139349100003
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
Its returns6 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | IRS 990-PF | 202602389349100320 | IRS batch file |
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202542839349100719 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202432139349100003 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202343119349102209 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202203079349101100 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202143129349101709 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Knowledge-Freedom Foundation made 217 grants across 2020–2025, totalling $2.5m as filed.
- Grants
- 217
- Total, as filed
- $2.5m
- Years
- 2020–2025
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 1INFINITELIFE | 4 | $354.0k |
| GIVEWELL | 4 | $320.0k |
| NEW INCENTIVES | 5 | $162.5k |
| MALARIA CONSORTIUM | 5 | $112.5k |
| HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL | 4 | $87.5k |
| ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | 6 | $77.0k |
| AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION | 2 | $75.0k |
| MEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS | 6 | $65.4k |
| GIVE DIRECTLY | 1 | $50.0k |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES | 1 | $49.5k |
| MAP INTERNATIONAL | 5 | $48.8k |
| ALAMEDA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS | 3 | $48.6k |
| HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL | 4 | $44.8k |
| MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES | 4 | $44.0k |
| NAROPA UNIVERSITY | 1 | $39.6k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 40 | $248.8k |
| 2021 | 31 | $269.0k |
| 2022 | 52 | $604.4k |
| 2023 | 34 | $650.4k |
| 2024 | 30 | $345.2k |
| 2025 | 30 | $361.4k |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-043296540. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified