Freedom House

American think tank (1941-)
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Summary

Freedom House is an advocacy group[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of advocacy group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,632 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: International Freedom of Expression Exchange[3]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: New York[4]
  • Country: United States[5]
  • Instance of: non-governmental organization[6], think tank[7], nonprofit organization[8]
  • Founder: Wendell Willkie[9], Eleanor Roosevelt[10], Dorothy Thompson[11], Rex Stout[12]
  • Headquarters location: Washington, D.C.[13]
  • Commons category: Freedom House[14]
  • Chairperson: Michael Abramowitz[15]
  • Inception: October 31, 1941[16], 1941[17]
  • Official website: https://freedomhouse.org/[18]
  • Sponsor: Federal Government of the United States[19], Open Society Foundations[20], National Endowment for Democracy[21]
  • Employees: 120[22]
  • Described by source: USAspending[23]
  • Official name: Freedom House, Inc.[24], Freedom House of New York Inc.[25]
  • Legal form: 501(c)(3) organization[26]
  • Different from: Freedom House[27], The Freedom House Inc.[28]
  • Total revenue: 93,499,518 US dollars[29], 103,819,697 US dollars[30], 41,448,447 US dollars[31], 45,249,648 US dollars[32], 34,528,992 US dollars[33], 31,965,126 US dollars[34], 30,856,377 US dollars[35], 28,826,975 US dollars[36], 32,650,022 US dollars[37], 39,904,249 US dollars[38], 48,017,381 US dollars[39], 50,524,461 US dollars[40], 64,626,506 US dollars[41], 90,305,550 US dollars[42]
  • Total assets: 26,716,685 US dollars[43], 33,139,287 US dollars[44], 9,922,321 US dollars[45], 15,144,537 US dollars[46], 11,110,230 US dollars[47], 9,400,408 US dollars[48], 10,771,374 US dollars[49], 8,990,191 US dollars[50], 8,575,576 US dollars[51], 9,253,493 US dollars[52], 7,651,969 US dollars[53], 15,005,132 US dollars[54], 17,314,400 US dollars[55]

Why It Matters

Freedom House has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[56] It is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[57]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . projects.propublica.org. Retrieved . projects.propublica.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [4] ↑ . OpenCorporates. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [13] ↑ . freedomhouse.org. Retrieved . freedomhouse.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [3] ↑ . ifex.org. Retrieved . ifex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . freedomhouse.org. Retrieved . freedomhouse.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . ROR release v1.19. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . cage.report. Retrieved . cage.report. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . ned.org. ned.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . freedomhouse.org. freedomhouse.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . OpenCorporates. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . OpenCorporates. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . projects.propublica.org. Retrieved . projects.propublica.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . Nonprofit Explorer. Retrieved . projects.propublica.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  52. [54] ↑ . Nonprofit Explorer. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  53. [55] ↑ . Nonprofit Explorer. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [56] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [57] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 13d ago · NGOgo · 2026-10-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Kallías id → KS00134854
    New york post topic id → freedom-house
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    Goodreads author id → 249795
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    X (twitter) username → FreedomHouseDC, freedomhouse
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