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Yager Freedom Foundation

To foster religious & charitable activities

$29k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$327kHuman Services$200kInternational$61kHealth$48kCommunity Improvement$25kYouth Development$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $27,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $29,184 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,184 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.
$16,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STEEL CREEK CHURCH$16,000
CRESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$11,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HOME FOR OUR TROOPS: $250 → 11%SPUNBOND: $20k → 12%MISSION OF HOPE IN HAITI: $28k → 6%PRIVATE ENTERPRISE FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%HUNGRY HEROES BBQ: $10k → 8%FAITH WINS: $15k → 17%COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY: $6k → 14%EASTER SEALS: $14k → 8%STEEL CREEK CHURCH: $16k → 10%CRESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $11k → 14%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20k → 21%MID ATLANTIC COMMUNITY CHURCH: $250 → 6%RON BALL EVANGELISTIC ASSOC: $21k → 35%MISSION OF HOPE IN HAITI: $12k → 6%PRIVATE ENTERPRISE FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%MORNINGSTAR FELLOWSHIP CHURCH: $25k → 8%FAITH WINS: $15k → 17%EASTER SEALS: $13k → 8%STEEL CREEK CHURCH: $10k → 10%RON BALL EVANGELISTIC ASSOC: $15k → 35%GO LOVE: $100k → 8%EASTER SEALS: $12k → 8%STEEL CREEK CHURCH: $5k → 10%GO LOVE: $100k → 8%EASTER SEALS: $8k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
KY
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
OK
TX
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$610k · 8 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$610k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
0%

Still filing today

75%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationHealthInternationalHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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

  • R
    RENEWANATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +52%
  • GL
    Go Love
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +35%
  • ES
    EASTER SEALS METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $48k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • MF
    MORNINGSTAR FELLOWSHIP CHURCH
    4× · 2017–2020 · $25k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • S
    SPUNBOND
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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
Wayne Dorsett Ministries Inc

To reach lost people with the transforming Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
2
Gods Promise Ministries International

Religious Purposes

Housing & Shelter
3
Faithbytheword Incorporated

As Christs followers, we have the Holy Spirit residing within us, which means we have His power to fulfill this command. We cant save anyone, but its our responsibility to tell people about the God who can. How will they believe unless…

Human Services
4
Free to Worship Ministries

This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.

Religion
5
Jesus in Vietnam Ministries
Religion
6
Spirit Invasion Ministries

Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
7
Timothy Mark Ministries

To see renewal of the evangelical church in north america

Education
8
Jerry Vines Ministries Inc

Spread the gospel of jesus christ through revival, preaching, providing audio and visual materials, producing books and ministry development

Religion
9
Real Evangelism Inc
Religion
10
Walking On Water Ministries Inc

Teach the word of god

Religion
11
Frontier Evangelism Inc

Preaching the Gospel in Crusades

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12
Israel Restoration Ministries
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission of Hope Inc Mission of Hope Haiti Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hungry Heroes Incorporated. 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

14 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. 14 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RENEWANATION: $200,000 · EducationRENEWANATIONGo Love: $200,000 · InternationalGo LoveRON BALL EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC: $36,000 · OtherRON BALL EVANGELISTIC AS…STEELE CREEK CHURCH OF CHARLOTTE: $31,000 · OtherSTEELE CREEK CHURCH OF C…MORNINGSTAR FELLOWSHIP CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherMORNINGSTAR FELLOWSHIP C…PRIVATE ENTERPRISE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherPRIVATE ENTERPRISE FOUND…SPUNBOND: $19,851 · OtherSPUNBONDCRESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $11,000 · OtherCRESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE D…+2 more: $5,250 · OtherMISSION OF HOPE INC MISSION OF HOPE HAITI INC: $40,157 · ReligionMISSION OF HOP…Faith Wins: $30,000 · ReligionFaith WinsSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,346 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PU…EASTER SEALS METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $48,334 · HealthHUNGRY HEROES INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCOUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY: $5,500 · Public BenefitHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $250 · Housing & Shelter
Education$200,000International$200,000Other$153,101Religion$90,503Health$48,334Food & Nutrition$10,000Public Benefit$5,500Housing & Shelter$250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRENEWANATION: $200,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetGo Love: $200,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetEASTER SEALS METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $48,334 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION OF HOPE INC MISSION OF HOPE HAITI INC: $40,157 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRON BALL EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC: $36,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,346 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $11,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHUNGRY HEROES INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTim Lee Ministries: $5,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $250 over 3y, 0.0% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Yager Freedom Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Yager Freedom Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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.

    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 17 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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