Toxic-Free Future

Name

Toxic-Free Future

Legal name

Toxic-Free Future

Website

https://toxicfreefuture.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1991

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Health Advocacy

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Pollution Prevention & Toxics Reduction (BPAGAGAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Circular Economy & Waste/Materials Reporting (Zero waste, packaging) (EUAHAJAL)

Keywords

• Environmental health research
• Chemical safety advocacy
• Retail chemical reporting
• Consumer chemical education
• Safer products policy

Headquarters

HQ city

Seattle

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: The organization accepts individual donations through its website, with various donation tiers and monthly recurring donation options available. Donations are tax-deductible as the organization is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
2. Foundation Grants: Supported by foundations that provide grants for environmental health research and advocacy work. Mentioned as receiving support from generous donors, foundations, and volunteers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Toxic-Free Future is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that conducts scientific research and advocacy to promote safer products, chemicals, and practices. It works to eliminate toxic chemicals from consumer products, food packaging, and cosmetics through retailer engagement, policy advocacy, and public education campaigns targeting environmental health.

Product overview

Toxic-Free Future is a non-profit environmental health research and advocacy organization that operates as a platform of interconnected programs rather than a unified software product. The organization's core offerings include the Mind the Store program (market transformation initiative pushing retailers to eliminate toxic chemicals), the Retailer Report Card (annual benchmarking report grading retailers on chemical safety policies), Protect Safer Choice (advocacy for EPA's certification program), Safer Products for Washington (supporting state chemical regulation), Toxic-Free Cosmetics (targeting harmful cosmetics ingredients), Toxics in Food Packaging (eliminating chemicals from food containers), PFAS in Products (addressing 'forever chemicals'), Research Studies & Reports (original scientific investigations), and Healthy Choices (consumer education). These programs work together to advance the organization's mission of creating a toxic-free future through science, advocacy, grassroots organizing, and consumer engagement.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Mind the Store: Market transformation program that challenges major retailers to eliminate toxic chemicals and plastics from products, packaging, and supply chains.
• Retailer Report Card
• Safer States Alliance

Quantifiable outcome

• Secured first-in-nation ban on PFAS in food packaging in Washington state, influencing 11 additional states to adopt similar bans
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• Seattle Children's Research InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 May 2026Collaborated on peer-reviewed research published in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, conducting breast milk testing to detect endocrine-disrupting chemicals. The study found alarming levels of plastic chemicals in breast milk samples from 50 mothers.
• Emory UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 May 2026Collaborated on peer-reviewed research to detect endocrine-disrupting chemicals including bisphenols, melamine, and triclosan in breast milk samples, contributing academic expertise to the scientific study.
• WE ACT for Environmental JusticecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 March 2026Partnered with WE ACT for Environmental Justice on analysis of hair products sold at Sally Beauty, finding 17% of products contained chemicals linked to cancer. Both organizations are urging Sally Beauty to adopt comprehensive safer chemicals policies.
• Safer States AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerToxic-Free Future is a lead partner in the Safer States Alliance, a national alliance uniting organizations to secure policies protecting people from toxic chemicals. The organization provides science-based research and policy expertise, helps identify health-protective policies, and drives system change grounded in chemical ingredient transparency.
• Healthy Building NetworkmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with Healthy Building Network to target the most hazardous chemicals in building products including PFAS, flame retardants, phthalates, and APEs, working with Washington state and major home improvement retailers to evaluate safer alternatives.
• Washington State Department of EcologycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborates with the Department of Ecology on implementation of the Safer Products for Washington Act, the nation's strongest law regulating toxic chemicals in products, providing research, policy expertise, and public comment support.
• Safer Chemicals Healthy Families CoalitioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLed the coalition representing hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals that helped convince Congress and President Obama to update TSCA in 2016. Coalition included environmental, consumer, business, labor, health, and science groups.
• Clean Production ActionmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborates on using GreenScreen and ChemForward hazard-based assessment tools to define safer solutions for chemicals regulation under Washington state's Safer Products for Washington law.
• Alliance for Health and Safe ChemicalscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLeads this alliance bringing together leading organizations and networks to defend TSCA from rollbacks and fight for strong health protections from toxic chemicals.
• Washington State Council of Fire FightersminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupports the organization's advocacy on organohalogen flame retardants that threaten firefighter health, with WSCFF legislative liaison providing input on regulatory comments.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Natural Resources Defense Council: Large environmental advocacy organization that engages on toxic chemicals, federal TSCA implementation, and state policy. Significantly larger in scale but overlaps in federal policy and PFAS advocacy work.
• Earthjustice: Public-interest environmental law organization that litigates to enforce chemical safety laws. Collaborates with Toxic-Free Future on vinyl chloride and other chemical campaigns but operates primarily through litigation rather than original research.

Direct peers

• Environmental Working Group: National nonprofit that combines original scientific research, consumer-facing databases (e.g., Skin Deep), and federal/state advocacy on toxic chemicals. Most directly comparable peer in mission, methodology, and target audiences.
• Center for Environmental Health: Nonprofit that uses scientific testing and legal action to drive retailers and manufacturers to eliminate hazardous chemicals, particularly in cosmetics and food packaging. Operates with a similar science-to-advocacy pipeline.
• WE ACT for Environmental Justice: Environmental justice nonprofit that partners with Toxic-Free Future on chemical exposures in products marketed to communities of color (e.g., Sally Beauty hair products analysis). Comparable focus on chemical exposure and community health.
• Healthy Building Network: Research nonprofit that catalogs hazardous chemicals in building products and works with retailers to identify safer alternatives. Direct partner of Toxic-Free Future on building materials programs.
• Clean Production Action: Nonprofit that builds chemical assessment tools (GreenScreen, ChemForward) used by regulators and brands. Toxic-Free Future collaborates with Clean Production Action to define safer solutions under Washington law.
• Green Science Policy Institute: Mission-driven organization focused on reducing toxic chemicals in consumer products, led by a prominent chemist. Strong overlap in PFAS and flame retardant advocacy, and frequently co-files research used in policy campaigns.

Emerging players

• Beyond Plastics: Nonprofit focused on ending plastic pollution, co-authored the vinyl chloride report with Toxic-Free Future and Earthjustice. More narrowly focused on plastics but adjacent mission.

Others

• Safer States Alliance: National alliance of environmental health organizations that Toxic-Free Future helps lead. Functions as a coalition vehicle rather than a peer organization, but its policy framework shapes how Toxic-Free Future's state campaigns are coordinated.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ToxFreeFuture
• Facebookfacebook.com/ToxicFreeFutureWA
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/toxicfreefuturewa

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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