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Free the Oppressed

To bring help hope and love to people of all faiths and ethnicities in the conflict areas to shine a light on the actions of oppressors to stand with the oppressed and support leaders and organizations committed to liberty justice and service.

$187k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$122k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$9,530
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$4.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Free the Oppressed funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
Human ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterInternational
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$122k50%
FY20232$20k50%
FY20222$60k100%
FY20214$88kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$118kHuman Services$73kInternational$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$39k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Deidox Films Inc$100,000131%
Bonus Years Inc$63,40836%
Shai Fund Inc$50,00011%
Plan B ARC INC$20,00013%
The Fund for Liberty and Justice Inc$19,000218%
Novi Community$10,00013%
Evac Inc$10,0001n/a
East-West Ministries International$9,5301n/a
Living Water Productions$8,00019%

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA8.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Free the Oppressed?

Find your warmest path to Free the Oppressed through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Free the Oppressed

How much does Free the Oppressed give?
Free the Oppressed reported 4 itemized grants totaling $121,530, out of $187,153 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Free the Oppressed fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (41%), Human Services (25%), International (21%).
Who are Free the Oppressed's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Deidox Films Inc ($100k), Bonus Years Inc ($63k), Shai Fund Inc ($50k).
Does Free the Oppressed fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Free the Oppressed?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is Free the Oppressed based?
Free the Oppressed is based in CO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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