Global Freedoms Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Global freedoms (501c3) amplifies youth movements and scales human rights campaigns. We mobilize storytelling, digital culture, and social influence to forge coalitions across difference and against oppression. We believe culture is counterpowerand freedom must be global. In 2024, global freedoms continued advancing its mission to strengthen human rights awareness and media literacy through its social platforms. Building on earlier years that focused on public visibility and billboard activations, this year marked a decisive evolution in strategy: global freedoms concentrated on educational storytelling, long-form digital media, and collaborations that connected western audiences to the conditions that gave rise to the woman, life, freedom movement within the broader geopolitical framework of the middle east and diaspora. This work centered on womens rights, lgbtq+ rights, labor rights, students rights, climate justice, and the overlapping struggles that define global movements for freedom. Throughout 2024, global freedoms sought to expand public understanding of how authoritarian systems reproduce themselves globallythrough propaganda, economic control, social conditioning, and shared patterns of repression. The organization emphasized the need to understand life under the iri within a broader transnational contextrecognizing that global freedom movements and systems of oppression are interconnected through shared political practices, economic structures, and social conditions. To deepen public education, global freedoms collaborated with a wide network of human rights organizations, independent researchers and journalists, writers, legal experts, artists, and social influencers based in the united states, canada, and across europe. Together they produced several educational series, including contested histories, unpacked the controversies in how post-1940s historical narratives across the region has been told, revised, and weaponized; and the regime roundup, a weekly news roundup of how international media these different formats for educational content are explorations in ways to bring together humor, history, and artistic expression to function as powerful tools for media literacy and human rightsdriven, fact-based education. Posts across global freedoms social media platforms consistently reached beyond the 2,5005,000 like threshold, signaling that audiences are increasingly engaging with context-driven, historically informed content. Through collaborations with artists, illustrators, dancers, and musicians, global freedoms continued to merge cultural production with activismusing performance, design, and visual storytelling to expose the cultural and gendered dimensions of repression under the iri. Global freedoms also focused on continuing its work amplifying human rights campaigns to western audiences who might not otherwise learn about these consistent and courageous acts of civil disobedience because of the regimes strategic use of internet shutdowns, censorship, arrests, and executions to silence dissent. This coverage included the weekly tuesday hunger strikes by women prisoners in evin, protesting the death penalty, labor strikes by healthcare workers demanding safe and fair conditions, and widespread arrests and censorship of artists, singers, labor activists, students, and journalists who defied laws restricting freedom of expression. Content also addressed representation on the ioc refugee olympic team for paris 2024, highlighting both visibility and exile as defining features of the contemporary middle eastern experience. In 2024, global freedoms was honored with a webby award nomination in the advertising, media & pr public service & activism category for its work on the iran prison project, created in partnership with wongdoody. Originally launched in 2023, the project continued to reach global audiences in 2024 as a groundbreaking example of how immersive digital media can advance human rights education and

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 74.3%; rating input score 74
• Program expense ratio: 93.3%; rating input score 93
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 40%; rating input score 40; 10th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 20.3%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.81; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -63.6% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings