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Dec 23, 2025

2025 Financial Freedom Impact Report

2025 Financial Freedom Impact Report
2025 Financial Freedom Impact Report

2025 was a milestone year for HRF’s Financial Freedom program. It was defined by growth, collaboration, and real progress. With your generous support for the program’s record grantmaking, groundbreaking research, and global events, HRF has built global momentum to advance financial freedom for human rights defenders, civil society, and everyday people living in some of the world’s most brutal dictatorships.

We’re excited to share our End-of-Year Financial Freedom Impact Report, which highlights the people, projects, and technologies you helped support and the real-world ways they’re being used to resist censorship, surveillance, and financial repression worldwide.

In 2026, we’ll build on this momentum to push even further, helping people living under tyranny protect their financial autonomy and their future.

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