Funding search · EIN 541660459 · Scottsdale, AZ

Alliance Defending Freedom

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

127
grants reported
$22.5M
total given
2021–2024
filing years
$20,766
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20212024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Top recipients

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  • Alliance Defending Freedom International1 grant · $8.7M
  • Adf International1 grant · $8.6M
  • Adf Action2 grants · $1.0M
  • Adf Action1 grant · $900,000
  • Child & Parental Rights Campaign3 grants · $180,000
  • Liberty Counsel1 grant · $150,000
  • Ethics and Public Policy Center3 grants · $119,200
  • Deforest Koscelnik & Berardinelli2 grants · $100,000
  • Envisage Law1 grant · $96,852
  • The Family Foundation of Virginia2 grants · $94,980

Giving over time

$814,918
2021
$847,532
2022
$10.3M
2023
$10.5M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 127 grants.

  • $8.7M

    Alliance Defending Freedom International · Lansdowne, VA · 2024

    Operations support

  • $8.6M

    Adf International · Scottsdale, AZ · 2023

    Operations Support

  • $900,000

    Adf Action · Scottsdale, AZ · 2024

    Operations support

  • $822,186

    Adf Action · Scottsdale, AZ · 2023

    Operations Support

  • $185,000

    Adf Action · Scottsdale, AZ · 2022

    Operations support

  • $150,000

    Liberty Counsel · Orlando, FL · 2023

    Religious Liberty

  • $96,852

    Envisage Law · Raleigh, NC · 2024

    Family values

  • $85,000

    Child & Parental Rights Campaign · Norcross, GA · 2021

    Family Values

  • $84,183

    The Family Foundation of Virginia · Richmond, VA · 2021

    Sanctity of Life

  • $80,219

    Consovoy McCarthy Pllc · Arlington, VA · 2024

    Religious liberty

  • $78,000

    Ethics and Public Policy Center · Washington, DC · 2021

    Family Values

  • $75,000

    Liberty Counsel · Orlando, FL · 2024

    Religious liberty

  • $65,000

    Child & Parental Rights Campaign · Norcross, GA · 2022

    Family Values

  • $60,000

    Institute for Patients Rights · New York, NY · 2023

    Sanctity of Life

  • $56,498

    Dalton & Tomich Plc · Detroit, MI · 2023

    Religious Liberty

  • $55,000

    Boyden Gray Pllc · Washington, DC · 2024

    Religious liberty

  • $55,000

    Boyden Gray Pllc · Washington, DC · 2023

    Family Values

  • $55,000

    American Freedom Law Center · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022

    Religious Liberty

  • $50,000

    Deforest Koscelnik & Berardinelli · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023

    Sanctity of Life

  • $50,000

    Deforest Koscelnik & Berardinelli · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022

    Religious Liberty

  • $50,000

    County Citizens Defending Freedom - USA Foundation · Mulberry, FL · 2021

    Religious Liberty

  • $50,000

    Women'S Libertation Front · Washington, DC · 2021

    Religious Liberty

  • $47,800

    Ethics and Public Policy Center · Washington, DC · 2024

    Family values and religious liberty

  • $46,835

    Hershberger Law Office · Hanover, IN · 2022

    Family Values

  • $45,646

    American Association of Prolife Obstetricians and Gynecologists · Fort Wayne, IN · 2023

    Sanctity of Life

  • $45,072

    Kellum Law Firm · Memphis, TN · 2023

    Family Values

  • $42,396

    Cooper & Kirk Pllc · Washington, DC · 2021

    Religious Liberty

  • $41,406

    Wadleigh Starr & Peters Pllc · Machester, NH · 2021

    Religious Liberty

  • $40,050

    Religious Freedom Institute · Washington, DC · 2022

    Religious Liberty

  • $40,000

    American College of Pediatricians · Atlanta, GA · 2023

    Sanctity of Life

  • $40,000

    Life On Belay · Ofallon, MO · 2023

    Religious Liberty

  • $40,000

    Patrick Henry College · Purceville, VA · 2022

    Religious Liberty

  • $40,000

    Patrick Henry College · Purcellville, VA · 2021

    Religious Liberty

  • $36,060

    Indiana Family Institute · Noblesville, IN · 2023

    Family Values

  • $33,100

    Indiana Family Institute · Noblesville, IN · 2022

    Religious Liberty

  • $31,833

    Dillon Pllc · Washington, DC · 2024

    Religious liberty

  • $31,760

    Mauck & Baker Llc · Chicago, IL · 2022

    Religious Liberty

  • $31,637

    Simms Showers Llp · Leesburg, VA · 2024

    Sanctity of life

  • $30,351

    Fox Rothschild Llp · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

    Religious liberty

  • $30,015

    Women'S Liberation Front · Washington, DC · 2022

    Religious Liberty

  • $30,000

    Bodanza & Bodanza Law Office · Leominster, MA · 2024

    Family values

  • $30,000

    Child & Parental Rights Campaign · Norcross, GA · 2023

    Family Values

  • $30,000

    Hixson & Brown Pc · West Des Moines, IA · 2021

    Sanctity of Life

  • $30,000

    Kriegshauser Ney Law Group · Topeka, KS · 2021

    Religious Liberty

  • $29,968

    Smith Appellate Law Firm Pllc · Washington, DC · 2022

    Sanctity of Life

  • $28,042

    Smith Appellate Law Firm Pllc · Washington, DC · 2021

    Sanctity of Life

  • $28,000

    Hostetter Law Group Llp · Enterprise, OR · 2024

    Family values

  • $27,726

    Wadleigh Starr & Peters Pllc · Manchester, NH · 2024

    Family values and religious liberty

  • $27,387

    Charlotte Lozier Institute · Washington, DC · 2021

    Sanctity of Life

  • $26,000

    Ethics and Public Policy Center · Washington, DC · 2022

    Religious Liberty

  • $25,130

    Mauck & Baker Llc · Chicago, IL · 2023

    Religious Liberty

  • $25,066

    Burke Law Group · Houston, TX · 2024

    Family values

  • $25,000

    Child & Parental Rights Campaign · Peachtree Corners, GA · 2024

    Family values

  • $25,000

    American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists · Eau Claire, MI · 2021

    Sanctity of Life

  • $25,000

    Live Action · Arlington, VA · 2021

    Sanctity of Life

  • $25,000

    Mauck & Baker Llc · Chicago, IL · 2021

    Religious Liberty

  • $25,000

    Nussbaum Speir Gleason Pllc · Colorado Springs, CO · 2021

    Religious Liberty

  • $24,935

    Burke Law Group · Houston, TX · 2023

    Religious Liberty

  • $24,381

    Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge · Grand Rapids, MI · 2022

    Sanctity of Life

  • $22,726

    Wagenmaker & Oberly Llc · Chicago, IL · 2024

    Religious liberty and sanctity of life

  • $21,820

    Shreffler Law Pllc · Lakeville, MN · 2022

    Religious Liberty

  • $20,969

    Dalton & Tomich Plc · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Religious liberty

  • $20,928

    Frontline Policy Council (Georgia) · Newnan, GA · 2021

    Religious Liberty

  • $20,766

    Reprotection · Louisville, KY · 2022

    Sanctity of Life

  • $20,000

    Illumine Legal Llc · Denver, CO · 2024

    Religious liberty

  • $20,000

    Murray-Nolan Berutti Llc · Clark, NJ · 2024

    Family values

  • $20,000

    Canopy Global Foundation · Naples, FL · 2022

    Sanctity of Life

  • $20,000

    Adams & Graham Llp · Harlingen, TX · 2021

    Religious Liberty

  • $19,500

    Dalton & Tomich · Detroit, MI · 2021

    Sanctity of Life

  • $18,304

    Orndorff Mowen Pllc · Scott Depot, WV · 2023

    Religious Liberty

  • $18,000

    Harned Strategies Llc · Arlington, VA · 2024

    Sanctity of life

  • $17,733

    Dakota Law Pllc · Lakeville, MN · 2024

    Religious liberty

  • $17,194

    Lynch Murphy McLane Llp · Bend, OR · 2024

    Religious liberty

  • $17,000

    Center for Arizona Policy · Phoenix, AZ · 2022

    Sanctity of Life

  • $16,766

    Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge · Grand Rapids, MI · 2021

    Sanctity of Life

  • $15,990

    Spero Law Llc · Charleston, SC · 2023

    Family Values and Sanctity of Life

  • $15,951

    Wadleigh Starr & Peters Pllc · Manchester, NH · 2022

    Family Values

  • $15,200

    Ethics and Public Policy Center · Washington, DC · 2023

    Sanctity of Life

  • $15,000

    Association of Pro Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists · Ft Wayne, IN · 2024

    Sanctity of life

  • $15,000

    American Freedom Law Center · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023

    Religious Liberty

  • $15,000

    Law Offices of Jonathan R Whitehead Llc · Lees Summit, MO · 2023

    Family Values

  • $14,324

    Wadleigh Starr & Peters Pllc · Manchester, NH · 2023

    Family Values

  • $13,798

    Demetrios K Stratis Llc · Fair Lawn, NJ · 2023

    Sanctity of Life

  • $13,522

    Orndorff Mowen Pllc · Scott Depot, WV · 2024

    Family values

  • $13,366

    John Paul Ii Shrine and Institute · Washington, DC · 2023

    Religious Liberty

  • $13,326

    Miller Johnson · Grand Rapids, MI · 2024

    Religious liberty

  • $13,128

    Phelps Dunbar Llp · Baton Rouge, LA · 2022

    Sanctity of Life

  • $12,500

    Edmunds Law Office Llc · Overland Park, KS · 2024

    Religious liberty

  • $12,000

    John Paul Ii Shrine and Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

    Sanctity of life

  • $11,430

    Religious Freedom Institute · Washington, DC · 2021

    Sanctity of Life

  • $11,040

    Law Office of Nic Cocis · Murrieta, CA · 2024

    Sanctity of life

  • $10,800

    The Justice Foundation · San Antonio, TX · 2024

    Sanctity of life

  • $10,797

    The Family Foundation of Virginia · Richmond, VA · 2022

    Religious Liberty

  • $10,610

    Nelson Madden Black Llp · New York, NY · 2023

    Religious Liberty

  • $10,268

    John Paul Ii Shrine and Institute · Washington, DC · 2022

    Sanctity of Life

  • $10,060

    Campbell Miller Payne Pllc · Dallas, TX · 2023

    Religious Liberty

  • $10,000

    American Freedom Law Center · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024

    Sanctity of life

  • $10,000

    Raymond M Adler Pc · Noblesville, IN · 2024

    Religious liberty

  • $10,000

    Silent Majority Foundation · Pasco, WA · 2024

    Religious liberty

  • $10,000

    Charitable Allies · Indianapolis, IN · 2023

    Sanctity of Life

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.