[5] Bangladesh Freedom Foundation was established as a trust in 1997 and registered with the NGO Affairs Bureau in 1998.
[4] The founding trustee board included Debapriya Bhattacharya, Qazi Fazlur Rahman, Meghna Guhathakurta, Muhammad Younus, Nayla Khan, Sultana Kamal, Syed Manzoor Elahi,[7] and Wahiduddin Mahmud.
[4] The board of trustee would later include Angela Gomes, Rokeya Afzal Rahman,[8] Samson H Chowdhury,[9] and Zafar Iqbal.
[12][13][14] Bangladesh Freedom Foundation has also received support from The Malala Fund and the Australian High Commission.
[4] The Ford Foundation has mixed in with the Bangladesh Freedom Forum and has received criticism from the Gateway House of the Indian Council on Global Relation for hiring the best talent away from government service.