Our Goal

Our Impact

In last year’s annual report, I shared our goal to reach a $3M operating budget by the end of 2024, and humbly asked donors to increase their giving to help us realize this fundraising milestone. Well, thanks to your

generosity, and our success in attracting brand new donors, I can proudly tell you that our 2022 operating budget is $2.5M!!!

I’m confident that with our continued momentum—driven by your continued support—our $3M goal by 2024, will be right on the money. A HUGE thank you to all of our donors who rocked our fundraising season and set us up for our biggest year yet.

However, now’s the time to shift into overdrive and turbocharge our accelerated growth. The Atlas Society continues to overperform compared to similar organizations relative to size and budget. Our culture of continuous improvement, experimentation, testing and learning quickly puts us in a unique position to always reach our target audience with our mission.

The embrace of individual rights and free market economics remains the lead driver of global enrichment, technological innovation and human flourishing. In modern times, Ayn Rand’s literature has proved the most effective “gateway drug” to spark adoption and further exploration of liberty’s foundational ideas.

This report has demonstrated the creative ways we are bringing Ayn Rand’s ideas to young people who are consuming content in radically new ways. We leverage art, humor, narrative, technology, and community to meet them where they are.

I was 22 years old when my dad encouraged me to read Atlas Shrugged. I was working construction at the time and listened to the entire audio book in less than 10 days. (Back to my point about young people consuming content differently these days!) I knew I’d never be the same, and desperately

wanted others to experience this profound awakening.

If you share this desire, then please consider renewing and increasing your support for our work, and join us in inviting other young people on this journey of inspiration, illumination and ambition. Supporting our work today will mean more young people will have the opportunity to discover the life changing philosophy that so impacted me and you.

At The Atlas Society, we have more ideas than we have staff or funding to implement. Our primary roadblock is the maxed-out bandwidth of our current staff, and lack of capital to expand and equally important, accelerate. A growing organization means more conference attendance, more campus visits, more adaptations and most importantly, more innovation.

Will you help us expand these initiatives— and accelerate the impact?

With profound gratitude,

Ana Freund, Development Director