Freedom Foundation is the public-facing name associated with Evergreen Freedom Foundation, an Olympia, Washington, nonprofit listed by ProPublica with EIN 94-3136961, ruling date 1991-11-01, and a latest profile tax period of 2024-12-01. The ProPublica profile lists assets of $7,519,898, income of $22,951,801, and revenue of $21,450,375; its 2023 filing summary lists total revenue of $17,166,848 and contribution / gift revenue of $17,009,590.
The Freedom Foundation's own March 7, 2025 Teacher Freedom Alliance announcement footer identifies the organization as a registered 501(c)(3) using EIN 94-3136961.
The current source set supports treating Freedom Foundation as a public-sector anti-union / teacher-union-opposition actor. Its own launch article says it created the Teacher Freedom Alliance as a new partner organization offering educators an alternative to union membership, following its annual Teacher Freedom Summit. The same article says the summit had brought together more than 500 educators from 35 states over the prior two years.
The archived April 20, 2024 SourceWatch page describes Freedom Foundation as formerly known as Evergreen Freedom Foundation, based in Olympia, Washington, a State Policy Network member, and known for aggressive anti-union work. CMD's March 13, 2025 reporting describes the Freedom Foundation as an anti-union advocacy group and frames the Teacher Freedom Alliance as a new attempt to compete with existing teachers unions. Because SourceWatch and CMD are CMD / watchdog-context sources, claims about donor networks, strategy, and anti-union framing should be attributed when used downstream.
The archived SourceWatch page says Freedom Foundation is funded in part by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation. CMD separately reports that the Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation contributed $3.2 million to the Freedom Foundation from 2018-2023, making it the largest known funder identified in CMD's analysis. CMD also reports that Bradley internal files praised Freedom Foundation as a national model and that Bradley has spent millions on public-employee union opt-out campaigns.
This pass did not independently extract the underlying Bradley 990-PF Schedule I grant rows. Treat the Bradley-to-Freedom-Foundation dollar figure as an attributed CMD finding until direct grant-row extraction is completed.
The Bradley Impact Fund is related to the Bradley Foundation ecosystem as a separate donor-advised fund / public charity, but the current source set does not show a direct Bradley Impact Fund grant to Freedom Foundation.
Existing repo sources connect Freedom Foundation to Colorado education and teacher-union lanes in two ways:
The Colorado Springs D11 strike article also places Freedom Foundation and Teacher Freedom Alliance figures in the public protest / media layer around the October 2025 D11 strike.