Ohio · Nonprofit
EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM
EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,755 to it, the largest being GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL ($84,185). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $150k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $110k
- Net assets
- $40k
What Education Foundation for Freedom does
Mission
Education Foundation for Freedom focuses upon interrupting vulnerability and promoting collective empowerment for diverse women, girls and gender- expansive people of color. To this end, we provide platforms and programming to elevate and cultivate leadership in arts, culture, education, entrepreneurship, and community well-being.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Empowering young voices (eyv)- a program designed for girls and gender- expansive youth ages 8-18 with an emphasis on building confidence, social emotional development, life skills, literacy and leadership through the arts.
$81,576 spent70% of program spendingColumbus women and girls' fest - annually, columbus women and girls' fest celebrates and promotes women and girl-identified leaders in arts and culture. Centered in the king/lincoln-mt. Vernon area, we invite the entire columbus community to join us in celebrating and supporting the lives of women and girls. We typically have live music, performances, food trucks, games, arts and crafts, workshops, and open community forums during the festival.
$34,961 spent30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $116,537.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $20k to $54k (+166%).
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.
99% of EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Dr Elaine Richardson
Board chair/
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $19k.
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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR 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
EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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
100% 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM.
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
100% of EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70 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.
Against its field
EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM?
- EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,755 to it, the largest being GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL ($84,185). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $109,755 in grants to EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM?
- GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $84,185 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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