Individual Freedom & Free Markets
Forecasted
Individual Freedom & Free Markets supports researchers, educators, and civil society ventures through research, education, and outreach advancing classical liberal ideas, freedom, and human flourishing.
Funder: John Templeton Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): August 2027 (Online Funding Inquiry)
Funding Amounts: Funding for discrete projects
Summary: Supports education, research, and outreach advancing individual freedom, free markets, competition, and entrepreneurship through classical liberal ideas.
Key Information: Generally open to charitable organizations worldwide; individuals and for-profit companies may apply only by staff invitation.
Description
The John Templeton Foundation’s Individual Freedom & Free Markets funding area supports education, research, and outreach grounded in classical liberal political economy. Guided by the moral equality of all human beings, it seeks to advance freedom and human flourishing and contribute to a more just, prosperous, and peaceful world. Supported work includes academic research, instruction, public outreach, and debate on public policy.
Priorities include innovative curricula and teaching resources for a new generation, education tailored to non-Western audiences, and research engaging critics and contemporary academic and policy challenges. Research topics include intelligence and artificial general intelligence (AGI), relationships among economic, political, and civil freedoms, centralized and decentralized power, and institutional reform and individual responsibility. Freedom Catalyst projects apply classical liberal principles in unexpected ways, including civil society ventures addressing social challenges.
