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AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION

AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,871 to it, the largest being VETERANS UNITED FOUNDATION ($185,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$795k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$254k
Net assets
$482k
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What American Freedom Foundation does

Mission

To raise funds thru programs to raise awareness for wounded military veterans, support military families in need and to support organizations who have activities that benefit these military families.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Donations received from the veterans' career hiring programs are used to provide veterans a free opportunity to participate and submit their job qualifications to major companies who will help provide employment opportunities to these veterans.

    $449,550 spentof which $17,415 as grants$56,590 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $449,550.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($147k) Expenses 100 ($179k) Net assets 100 ($9k)2018 Revenue 136 ($200k) Expenses 106 ($190k) Net assets 215 ($19k)2019 Revenue 121 ($178k) Expenses 95 ($171k) Net assets 303 ($26k)2020 Revenue 249 ($367k) Expenses 108 ($193k) Net assets 2306 ($200k)2021 Revenue 564 ($831k) Expenses 235 ($420k) Net assets 7045 ($612k)2022 Revenue 373 ($550k) Expenses 365 ($655k) Net assets 5957 ($517k)2023 Revenue 257 ($378k) Expenses 344 ($616k) Net assets 3220 ($280k)2024 Revenue 302 ($446k) Expenses 301 ($539k) Net assets 2148 ($186k)2025 Revenue 540 ($795k) Expenses 279 ($499k) Net assets 5557 ($482k)
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Revenue (540)Expenses (279)Net assets (5557)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $210k to $623k (+196%).

$31k
$34k
$46k
$210k
$623k
$517k
$285k
$190k
$490k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

92% of AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,582 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$32k
’17
$10k
’18
$8k
’19
$174k
’20
$411k
’21
−$104k
’22
−$238k
’23
−$93k
’24
$296k
’25
12
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Sma Jack L Tilley Ret

Chairman of

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed171714141414171717
Joined·+0+0+0+0+1+3+0+0
No longer listed·03001000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $30k → $188.

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

73% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION.

73%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 79% · 2022 85% · 2023 53% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 5 states in all.

IL
MI
MO
KY
TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $271 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,065 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin37% · top quartile
Months of reserve11.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)23% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,065 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
94%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 3 states

VA
NC
GA

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION?
AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,871 to it, the largest being VETERANS UNITED FOUNDATION ($185,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $253,871 in grants to AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION?
VETERANS UNITED FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing