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CELEBRATE FREEDOM FOUNDATION

CELEBRATE FREEDOM FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,083 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN COMPANY GAS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($58,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$511k
Revenue FY2024
3
Funders on record
$63k
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

CELEBRATE FREEDOM FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve21.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)36% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($59k) Expenses 100 ($219k) Net assets 100 ($897k)2018 Revenue 584 ($346k) Expenses 195 ($427k) Net assets 91 ($816k)2019 Revenue 654 ($387k) Expenses 128 ($280k) Net assets 103 ($923k)2020 Revenue 315 ($187k) Expenses 93 ($204k) Net assets 105 ($939k)2021 Revenue 399 ($236k) Expenses 101 ($221k) Net assets 109 ($974k)2022 Revenue 297 ($176k) Expenses 99 ($217k) Net assets 104 ($933k)2023 Revenue 1819 ($1.1M) Expenses 136 ($299k) Net assets 191 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 861 ($511k) Expenses 219 ($479k) Net assets 194 ($1.7M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (861)Expenses (219)Net assets (194)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

93% of CELEBRATE FREEDOM FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$160k
17
$81k
18
$107k
19
$17k
20
$16k
21
$41k
22
$779k
23
$31k
24
22
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $24 → $28k.

1 of 3 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 CELEBRATE 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

CELEBRATE FREEDOM FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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

92%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100%broadly stable.

“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

CELEBRATE FREEDOM FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 2 states in all.

VA
GA

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

21
23
South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CELEBRATE FREEDOM FOUNDATION

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

In South Carolina

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited 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 1 state

SC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CELEBRATE FREEDOM FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CELEBRATE FREEDOM FOUNDATION?
CELEBRATE FREEDOM FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,083 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN COMPANY GAS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($58,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CELEBRATE FREEDOM FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $63,083 in grants to CELEBRATE FREEDOM FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CELEBRATE FREEDOM FOUNDATION?
SOUTHERN COMPANY GAS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $58,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CELEBRATE FREEDOM FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing