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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 FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $121,530, the rows itemized in this filing. The $187,153 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $65,623 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$9,530
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Deidox Films Inc$100,000
East-West$9,530
The Fund for Liberty and Justice$7,000
Bonus Years Inc$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Evac Inc: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Grants abroad, by region: $66k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions, $20k to organizations and $45k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$53k · 81% · 1 grant · 66 people

Stated purpose: To support health, orphanage, and churches in the Middle East · Various cash grants given to individuals for assistance with food medical transportation or other survival need.

East Asia and the Pacific$10k · 15% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: To support missionaries in Tajikistan

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$2k · 4% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: To support missionary in Ukraine

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Airbridge Releief

AIRBRIDGE RELIEF plays a vital role in helping refugees and people in war-torn areas through planning, coordination and execution on the delivery and support of humanitarian aid. Our support and work involves helping in three major ways:…

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Operation Mordechai Inc
International
3
Rescue Ukraine

Ministry and support

Religion
4
Project Dynamo Inc

To deploy personnel and resources to global flashpoints where the us government has little to no formal diplomatic and military presence, either refused to conduct evacuations of us persons, allies, or vulnerable populations or where those…

International
5
Bridge to Baladi Corp

Charitable Donation to refugees

Human Services
6
Lift Up Ukraine

Lift Up Ukraine is a completely volunteer-based organization. In response to the deplorable human tragedy created by Russia's invasion, the mission is to help provide survival supplies & support to Ukraine's civilian defenders and…

International
7
Helping Hands Ministries

To support missionary work and helping needy

Religion
8
West Support Inc

WEST SUPPORT INC is a 501(c)(3) public charity dedicated to human rights advocacy and the documentation of war crimes and crimes against humanity in conflict zones. The organization provides direct humanitarian assistance to victims of…

Health
9
World Aid Runners
Health
10
Shield Ukraine

Provide humanitarian supoort to the people of Ukraine

International
11
Samaritan Air Inc

Emergency air transport

Human Services
12
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Novi Community; the most unlike its peers is Bonus Years Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/9
Grantees still filing
1/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DEIDOX FILMS INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentDEIDOX FILMS INCBonus Years Inc: $63,408 · Human ServicesBonus Years IncEVAC INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesEVAC INCSHAI FUND INC: $50,000 · InternationalSHAI FUND INCNOVI COMMUNITY: $10,000 · InternationalNOVI COMMUNITYPlan B ARC INC: $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPlan B ARC INCTHE FUND FOR LIBERTY AND JUSTICE INC: $19,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE FUND FOR LI…East-West Ministries International: $9,530 · ReligionLIVING WATER PRODUCTIONS: $8,000 · Religion
Environment$100,000Human Services$73,408International$60,000Public Safety & Disaster$39,000Religion$17,530

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDEIDOX FILMS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetBonus Years Inc: $63,408 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetSHAI FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPlan B ARC INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE FUND FOR LIBERTY AND JUSTICE INC: $19,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetNOVI COMMUNITY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLIVING WATER PRODUCTIONS: $8,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Free the Oppressed funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Free the Oppressed. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    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.

    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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