Not to be confused with Freedom OF Religion, this is the Freedom FROM Religion Foundation. Based in Madison, Wisconsin and founded in 1976 and was incorporated nationally on April 15, 1978.176 by Anne Nicol Gaylor and her daughter, Annie Laurie Gaylor. They focus on advocating for the maintaining the separation between church and state. They currently have over 35,000 members around the U.S. So what's their issue with Tyler ISD? Back on April 8, the TISD Board opted to approve an agreement with an organization known as Mentoring Alliance based in Tyler. The contract, worth a half million dollars, sends up to 314 "high-risk" area students who'd fallen behind academically to the summer camps hosted by the Mentoring Alliance for as long as ten weeks.