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The nonprofit '''FreedomWorks''' is "one of the main political outfits of the conservative movement and an instrumental force within the [[Tea Party|tea party]]," according to ''Mother Jones''.<ref name="armey resigns">David Corn and Andy Kroll, "[http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/12/dick-armey-resigns-freedomworks-tea-party Exclusive: Dick Armey Quits Tea Party Group in Split Over Direction ]," ''Mother Jones'', December 3, 2012. Accessed June 19, 2014.</ref> While FreedomWorks describes itself as "a grassroots service center"<ref>FreedomWorks, [http://www.freedomworks.org/about/about-freedomworks About], organizational website, accessed June 19, 2014.</ref>, political scientist [[Theda Skocpol]] has described the group as one of the "big-money funders and free-market advocacy organizations" that "leapt on the bandwagon" of protests in 2009 to advance their existing political agendas.<ref>Theda Skocpol, "[http://www.democracyjournal.org/31/why-the-tea-partys-hold-persists.php Why the Tea Party's Hold Persists]," ''Democracy'', Winter 2014. Accessed June 19, 2014.</ref>

FreedomWorks was created in July 2004 from the merger of [[Citizens for a Sound Economy]] (CSE) and [[Empower America]].<ref name="merge">[http://web.archive.org/web/20040725031033/http://www.freedomworks.org/release.php ""Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) and Empower America Merge to Form FreedomWorks"], Media release, undated, archived from July 25, 2004.</ref> FreedomWorks was headed by former Housing and Urban Development Secretary [[Dick Armey]] until 2012, when he was replaced as President by [[Matt Kibbe]].

[[Charles G. Koch]] and [[David H. Koch]] were co-founders of CSE in 1984, but are not active with FreedomWorks.

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