History
The FFRF was co-founded by Anne Nicol Gaylor and her daughter, Annie Laurie Gaylor, in 1976 and was incorporated nationally in 1978. The organization is supported by over 19,000 members and operates from an 1855-era building in Madison, Wisconsin that once served as a church rectory. According to the 2011 IRS tax Form-990, FFRF spent just over $200,000 on legal fees and services and just under $1 million on education, outreach, publishing, broadcasting, and events. The allotment for legal fees is primarily used in cases supporting the separation of church and state that involve governmental entities. FFRF also has a paid staff of twelve, including four full-time staff attorneys.
Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, is the author of Women Without Superstition: No Gods - No Masters (ISBN 1-877733-09-1) and a nonfiction book on clergy pedophilia scandals Betrayal of Trust: Clergy Abuse of Children (out of print), and editor of the anthology Woe to the Women (ISBN 1-877733-12-1). She edited the FFRF newspaper Freethought Today until July, 2008. Her husband, Dan Barker, author of Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist (ISBN 1-877733-07-5), Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists (ISBN 1569756775), The Good Atheist: Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God (ISBN 1569758468), and Just Pretend: A Freethought Book for Children, is a musician and songwriter, a former Pentecostal Christian minister, and co-president of the FFRF.
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