Free The Slaves, Inc.
Washington, DC
- UEI
- WFRPMLKEX133
- CAGE
- 4LA53
- Primary NAICS
- 813311 Human Rights Organizations
- SAM.gov registration
- Active through
Company facts
- Self-certified in SAM.gov
- Entity structure
- Corporate Entity (Tax Exempt)
- SAM.gov registration date
- Physical address
- 1320 19th St NW #600, Washington, DC 20036, USA
- Website
- freetheslaves.net
- Founded
- 2000
- Employees
- 11-50
- Estimated annual revenue
- $1M-$10M
- Industry
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- Consumer Discretionary
- Consumer Services
- Diversified Consumer Services
- Specialized Consumer Services
- SIC code
- 86 Membership Organizations
Registration and certifications come from SAM.gov and the SBA; company details from public web sources. Updated .
Grant awards
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
Grant subawards
| Prime recipient | Prime award | Amount | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| University Of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. | SSJTIP19CA0032 | $6,157 | |
| University Of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. | SSJTIP19CA0032 | $106,155 |
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About the company
Free The Slaves, Inc. (doing business as Free Slaves), a Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization, is a federal grant recipient focused on combating labor exploitation and human trafficking through international development and technical assistance programs funded by the Department of State and the Department of Labor. The organization operates as a prime grant recipient (80% of recent awards) and as a sub-recipient on research grants, with no federal contracting footprint.
Free The Slaves serves four distinct federal customer agencies, all focused on international affairs and labor policy. The Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement and the Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor each fund four awards, accounting for 100% of coverage in the award-count ranking. The Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs and the Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs round out the customer set with one award each. Total obligated dollars across all awards stands at $12.8 million, with recent activity concentrated in 2024 and 2025.
The organization's primary capability focus is organizing persons with lived experience of labor exploitation into policy-influencing networks and providing technical assistance to foreign governments to improve anti-labor-exploitation efforts and engagement with survivor populations. A representative prime award is a $2 million Department of Labor cooperative agreement, completed in March 2025, that implemented a four-phase project in the Philippines to empower labor-exploitation survivors to collaborate with government in policymaking and implementation, train government officials in trauma-informed engagement, and formalize ongoing collaboration frameworks. That award named Partnerships for Development Assistance in the Philippines (PDAP) as a sub-awardee, with three local partner organizations (Balaod Mindanaw, Atikha Overseas Workers and Communities Initiative Inc., and Katilin). In its sub-recipient role, Free The Slaves participates in University of Georgia Research Foundation grants focused on measuring the prevalence of trafficking worldwide and its implications for research, programming, and policy, with sub-awards dated April 2025 and August 2025.
Activity has been episodic over the past five years: one award per year in 2015–2017, a gap through 2023, then resumption with one award in 2024 and two in 2025. No recompete cliff is evident in the next twenty-four months.
Quick answers
Is Free The Slaves, Inc. registered in SAM.gov?
Yes. Free The Slaves, Inc.'s SAM.gov registration is active through February 15, 2027.
What is Free The Slaves, Inc.'s most recent federal award?
Free The Slaves, Inc.'s most recent federal grant award is This $2 million project implemented by free the slaves (FTS) aims to empower persons with lived experience (PLE) of… (25K75IL000022), from Grants Management (OASAM), on December 31, 2024.
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