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CHOICES FOR FREEDOM INC

CHOICES FOR FREEDOM INC (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $236,000 to it, the largest being THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION ($125,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$301k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$236k
Net assets
$199k
2/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 99%
01What it does

What Choices for Freedom Inc does

Mission

Choices for Freedom is dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families who have been impacted by mass incarceration. We develop and deliver effective programs, incorporating life skills and healing. We bring culturally relevant programs to men and women who are serving time, with reentry programs to assist them with reintegration back into the community, and deliver mentoring and prevention programs for youth.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. An educational program for trauma informed rehabilitation was delivered to over 125 women in California State prison, with a grant from the state of California.

    $44,188 spent
    11% of program spending
  2. Choices provided 97 men in California with reentry support, case management, and workforce development training post-release from California state prisons.

    $209,626 spent
    54% of program spending
  3. Choices delivered a cognitive behavioral program "You've Got Choices" with financial incentives to 29 young adults referred by the City of Stockton Office of Violence Prevention for gang involvement, with support from Making WorldBuilders and the National Prevention Science Coalition.

    $59,507 spent
    15% of program spending
  4. Choices provided a trauma informed rehabiliation program to 50 men at High Desert State Prison in Susanville, CA called "Path 2 Restoration"

    $36,563 spent
    9% of program spending
  5. Choices provided over 200 men in custody at San Quentin State Prison with support for inmate led programs and activities aligned with the California Model Prison initiative.

    $7,000 spent
    2% of program spending
  6. Choices delivered a positive youth development program in Los Angeles County to 8 young people.

    $3,000 spent
    1% of program spending
  7. Other Programs include Rides Home, Community Events, and Family Supports

    $27,886 spent
    7% of program spending

The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $387,770.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($295k) Expenses 100 ($195k) Net assets 100 ($109k)2021 Revenue 33 ($97k) Expenses 86 ($167k) Net assets 36 ($39k)2022 Revenue 45 ($134k) Expenses 79 ($153k) Net assets 18 ($20k)2023 Revenue 215 ($633k) Expenses 177 ($344k) Net assets 284 ($309k)2024 Revenue 178 ($524k) Expenses 241 ($469k) Net assets 337 ($366k)2025 Revenue 102 ($301k) Expenses 240 ($468k) Net assets 183 ($199k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (102)Expenses (240)Net assets (183)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 2022 to 2023, from $20k to $309k (+1442%).

$114k
$39k
$20k
$309k
$366k
$204k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2023 91% · 2024 98% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of CHOICES FOR FREEDOM INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,778 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$100k
’20
−$70k
’21
−$19k
’22
$290k
’23
$56k
’24
−$167k
’25
0.1
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.

Chief executive

Nathaniel Williams Jr

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2020202320242025
Listed2555
Joined··+0+0
No longer listed··00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $5k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 CHOICES FOR FREEDOM INC’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

CHOICES FOR FREEDOM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

32% 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 CHOICES FOR FREEDOM INC.

53%
largest funder
72%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 89% · 2020 78% · 2021 36% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

How long its funders stay

0% of CHOICES FOR FREEDOM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 22% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

99% of CHOICES FOR FREEDOM INC's grant income comes from California funders.

CA
DE

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

’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k 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

CHOICES FOR FREEDOM INC receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $236k to it.

Operating margin−55% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CHOICES FOR FREEDOM INC

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 16%Fundraising 1%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHOICES FOR FREEDOM INC?
CHOICES FOR FREEDOM INC (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $236,000 to it, the largest being THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION ($125,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHOICES FOR FREEDOM INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $236,000 in grants to CHOICES FOR FREEDOM INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHOICES FOR FREEDOM INC?
THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHOICES FOR FREEDOM INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 9 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing