The Greater Sum supports innovative nonprofits across our focus areas of community, health, education and environment in hopes that these nonprofits will expand and scale. 2020 Alumni organization FreeFrom is changing the conversation about gender-based violence and financial abuse.

Founder Sonya Passi visited Greater Sum’s January board meeting to give an update on how the organization has grown since receiving Greater Sum funding in 2020.

Awarded over $2MM in emergency cash grants to survivors,
Social enterprise, Gifted, has generated over $2.5MM in revenue for survivors,
Supporting survivors in getting legislation passed in 12 states,
Data from their cash grant program has been cited by the White House and used by federal agencies.

It’s noteworthy for a nonprofit to enter this sphere of influence. One of the challenges of working in the field of gender-based violence is the lack of good data. FreeFrom has used data from their cash grant program to publish reports on survivor experience and policy recommendations. As Sonya told our board, “it’s very easy to ignore a nonprofit but its hard to ignore 2500 survivors.”

FreeFrom recently celebrated their 7-year anniversary. Congratulations to Sonya and her team for the dramatic impact you’ve had in such a short time!