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Freed People

Freed People ignites hope by redeeming destinies and restoring families.

$551k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$86k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Human Services$429kCivil Rights$228kYouth Development$139kHealth$86kCrime & Legal$59kPhilanthropy$22kAnimals$9kHousing & Shelter$6k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $303,075, the rows itemized in this filing. The $550,634 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $247,559 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $108k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $163k
$15,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$454k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Texas Counter-Trafficking Initiative$86,375
4theONE Foundation$77,000
Rescue Hill$28,000
Milestone Ranch$23,000
Heaven's Army of Resources & Recreation Center$20,500
The Fountains Fellowship Counseling Center$15,200
ReInspire$11,500
Refuge City$10,000
Rescue Her$9,500
No Trafficking Zone$8,500
Different Day Foundation$8,000
Traffick911$5,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $452k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ReInspire: $12k → 10%Restored Hope Ministries: $8k → 14%Still Creek Boys Ranch: $175k → 22%4theONE Foundation: $77k → 14%Different Day Foundation: $8k → 22%4theONE Foundation: $76k → 14%Different Day Foundation: $7k → 22%4theONE Foundation: $63k → 14%Rescue Hill: $28k → 11%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$730k · 8 repeat orgs$247k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$730k
$189k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesCivil RightsCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    Texas Counter-Trafficking Initiative
    3× · 2023–2025 · $228k · revenue -32% · 84% of their budget
  • 4F
    4THEONE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $216k · 77% of their budget
  • HA
    Heavens Army of Resources & Recreation Center
    3× · 2023–2025 · $109k

Funded once

  • SC
    Still Creek Boys Ranch Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $175k · revenue 0%
  • RH
    Restored Hope Ministries Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
  • HC
    Hollow Creek Treatment Center
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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.

1
Untrafficked Inc
Human Services
2
HouseofHopeRefugeofLoveInc

Restoring our youth by turning trauma into triumph for female suvivors of child sex trafficking in Georgia.

Human Services
3
The Bridge 2 Home

The bridge 2 home is a safe and loving home for young girls and young women who were victimized by sex trafficking. at the bridge they can find healing and growth and can experience the love of a perfect heavenly father who pursues them.

Human Services
4
Regeneration International Inc

501 (c)(3) public charity

Human Services
5
Rahab House

Rahab House is deeply committed to the rescue, refuge, and restoration of human trafficking survivors. We provide comprehensive support that encompasses immediate safety and connections to long-term restorative care in alignment with the…

Human Services
6
Project Resilience

We recover, rebuild support, empower those affected by sexual exploitation. It is about to be revised is to Foster healing and transformation in the lives we serve

Human Services
7
Selah Life Choices Inc

We exist to serve women who have been trafficked. through our confidential services, we offer a safe space for healing to begin while we compassionately reflect jesus to all we encounter.

Human Services
8
Sojourn House Inc

Sojourn House exists to defend, restore, and liberate women who have been trafficked or exploited.

Human Services
9
FREEDOM13 Ministries Inc

Our mission is to rebuild dignity in the lives of those we serve.

Religion
10
Rahab's Daughters

To Serve communities and disrupt human trafficking with the use of modern technology, at every stage, from stopping demand to prevention, rescue and rehabilitation.

Human Services
11
The Genesis Project Seattle

Offer hope for a new life to young women and girls involved in domestic minor sex trafficking in the south king county area.

Religion
12
Thrive New England

Human trafficking prevention and support services for victims.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Refuge City; the most unlike its peers is Different Day Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

4THEONE FOUNDATION: $215,643 · Human Services4THEONE FOUNDATIONStill Creek Boys Ranch Inc: $175,000 · Human ServicesStill Creek Boys Ranch IncRescue Hill Nazarene Compassionate Ministry Center: $28,000 · Human ServicesRescue Hill Nazarene Compassionate Ministry Center+4 more: $43,500 · Human Services+4 moreTexas Counter-Trafficking Initiative: $227,599 · Civil RightsTexas Counter-Trafficking …Heavens Army of Resources & Recreation Center: $108,900 · OtherHeavens Army of Resourc…Milestone Ranch: $59,000 · OtherMilestone RanchTHE@FOUNTAINS FELLOWSHIP CHURCH: $23,390 · OtherTHE@FOUNTAINS FELLOWSHI…No Trafficking Zone: $8,500 · Other+1 more: $6,000 · OtherTraffick911: $58,500 · Crime & LegalRESCUE HER INC: $22,050 · Philanthropy
Human Services$462,143Civil Rights$227,599Other$205,790Crime & Legal$58,500Philanthropy$22,050

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 budgetTexas Counter-Trafficking Initiative: $227,599 over 3y, 84% of budget4THEONE FOUNDATION: $215,643 over 3y, 77% of budgetStill Creek Boys Ranch Inc: $175,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetHeavens Army of Resources & Recreation Center: $108,900 over 3y, 10% of budgetMilestone Ranch: $59,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetTraffick911: $58,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetRESCUE HER INC: $22,050 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetDIFFERENT DAY FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetReinspire: $11,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetRestored Hope Ministries Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Communities Foundatio…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Freed People funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Freed People. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%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
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Freed People?

    Find your warmest path to Freed People 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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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