Minnesota · Nonprofit
CITIZENS' COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM
CITIZENS' COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM (Minnesota) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,344,057 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($941,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Citizens' Council for Health Freedom does
Mission
Cchf exists to protect patient and doctor freedom.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational efforts:hipaa as part of our "truth about hipaa initiative, cchf launched a campaign to expose the hipaa hoax, educating americans about the federal "privacy rule" that does not protect privacy, but permits broad sharing of medical data.speaking engagements - cchf's team gave nearly 20 presentations in 2025, including zoom presentations, speeches at various events in cchf's home state of minnesota, south dakota, new york, virginia, and florida and twice in california, including three presentations at freedomfest in palm springs. Topics included hipaa, health tech ecosystem, medicare traps, and real id.annual gala - dr. Lee merritt, md was the keynote speaker at cchf's annual fundraising gala. The event was packed as more than 400 guests heard her share personal and professional stories in defense of health freedom. The program also included an informative fireside chat interview with cchf's legislative and policy director.sharing news and perspectives - approximately 5,722 copies of our quarterly hardcopy newsletter to donors (health freedom watch) were mailed in 2025. Approximately 35,000 subscribers receive our weekly enews by email, a 53.91% increase from the…
$571,564 spentof which $4,000 as grants70% of program spendingPolicy initiatives:federal:cchf went to washington, d.c. Three times for meetings with congressional members and staff. Our top two topics were the retirement freedom act (rfa), to allow senior citizens to opt out of medicare without losing social security benefits, and real id. Minnesota legislature:cchf helped a legislator to advance protections for direct primary care practices. Dpc language in the omnibus hhs bill became law. We also worked through testimony, meetings, a public engagement campaign, and sharing of information to try to stop the sale of minnesotans' health data housed in the state's all-payer claims database.state legislatures nationwide:cchf worked with legislators and engaged individuals to secure or advance protective legislation in arizona, iowa, michigan, missouri, south carolina, tennessee, west virginia, and wisconsin. Topics included patient privacy, digital ids, and real id.
$163,304 spent20% of program spendingSpecial projects:real id cchf secured donations to post refuserealid.org billboards in texas, kentucky, and florida. Cchf also secured funding to launch a campaign to bring our perspective on real id to attorney generals, and to commission the services of a former solicitor general to write a legal analysis on real id, which was published in september 2025. Added handouts to our helpful handouts section of the website, including "real id history," "refuse real id a practical guide, and "real id 5 facts."wedge of health freedom - the wedge of health freedom (the wedge), our free national online directory of direct-pay, patient-centered, affordable, third-party free practices, including four cash-based pharmacies, and a number of dental practices, continued to grow organically from 498 practices to 534 a growth of 7.2 percent.medicare how-to guide revised and updated sections of our popular 2024 guide and re-published it in november 2025.
$81,652 spent$7,965 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $816,520.
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.
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 $960k to $1.6M (+68%).
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.
98% of CITIZENS' COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Wayne King
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $28k → $593k.
9 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 CITIZENS' COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM’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
CITIZENS' COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 CITIZENS' COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 49% · 2019 71% · 2020 77% · 2021 64% · 2022 40% · 2023 59% — 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
50% of CITIZENS' COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
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
55% of CITIZENS' COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.1M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states 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.
Against its field
CITIZENS' COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CITIZENS' COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 13 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITIZENS' COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM: 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 CITIZENS' COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM?
- CITIZENS' COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM (Minnesota) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,344,057 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($941,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CITIZENS' COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,344,057 in grants to CITIZENS' COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITIZENS' COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM?
- COMMUNITYGIVING is the largest funder on record, with $941,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITIZENS' COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 20 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