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The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) is an American nonprofit organization founded in 2021. FAIR describes itself as a "nonpartisan organization dedicated to advancing civil rights and liberties for all Americans, and promoting a common culture based on fairness, understanding, and humanity."

Founding and board members
FAIR was founded in March 2021 by Bion Bartning, who also co-founded Eos Products. Bartning, who is of mixed Ashkenazi Jewish, Mexican, and Yaqui heritage, had sent his children to attend Riverdale Country School, a private school located in the The Bronx, in New York City. Bartning observed his children's schooling in the fall of 2020, which was conducted virtually over Zoom. The school introduced a theme of "allyship" for the schoolyear, promoting the idea that members of "privileged classes" should advance the interests and the voices of oppressed groups over their own. The students were shown a video of the school's mascot instructing them that they needed to "check each other's words and actions". After removing his children from Riverdale Country School, Bartning founded FAIR to oppose antiracist efforts that he views as "a kind of religion taking hold in American education that forces people into categories according to their race."

FAIR's board of advisers has included human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, musician and activist Daryl Davis, conservative activist and Manhattan Institute for Policy Research fellow Christopher Rufo, former Fox newscaster Megyn Kelly, journalist Bari Weiss, and academics Jonathan Haidt, Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Steven Pinker.

Activism
FAIR supported documentary filmmaker Meg Smaker, and organized a screening in Los Angeles for her 2022 film Jihad Rehab.