Texas · Nonprofit
EMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY
EMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $309,399 to it, the largest being ASCO FOUNDATION ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $309k
- Net assets
- $989k
What Embracing Freedom Ministry does
Mission
Embracing Freedom Ministry is a christ-based non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded to respond to the heart breaking epidemic of child sex trafficking. We hope to provide a safe environment for rehabilitation and healing for adolescent victims of sex trafficking.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Embracing Freedom Ministry is a faith-based organization in southeast texas founded in 2010 to respond to the heartbreaking epidemic of child sex trafficking. Embracing Freedom Ministry is an organization that provides advocacy to children who are recovered from sex trafficking situations, who are flagged by law enforcement or other organizations as possible trafficking victims, or who are at a high risk of becoming trafficked. Embracing freedom provides numerous services to victims and to local agencies. Interventions allow families to safely and gently address a child who is suspected of being a victum of trafficking. Embracing freedom child advocates function as facilitators and mediators between the family and the child, as well as educating the child about what child sex trafficking looks like. Frequently, these children do not understand that is what is happening to them is trafficking, so this information is extremely important in helping the child self-identify as a victum, thereby making them more amenable to accepting assistance. Embracing freedom advocates also mentor child victims as a part of advocacy, closely following the child's journey from beginning to end.…
$609,920 spent$899,731 earned by the program100% of program spendingEmbracing freedom also provides an extensive public awareness campaign. Advocates and volunteers have provided training at a number of local organizations including law enforcement agencies, fire stations, hospitals, social service centers, churches, schools, and state representative staff. These trainings and public appearances provide attendees with information on sex trafficking, what it looks like, how to identify it, how to respond, and prevention strategies. Each appearance is tailored to the needs of attendees.
$19,687 earned by the program
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $609,920.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $625k to $991k (+59%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 47% · 2021 51% · 2022 44% · 2023 46% · 2024 49% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of EMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $6k → $100k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 EMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY’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
EMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 EMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 85% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of EMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 17% 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
94% of EMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $64k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
EMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY?
- EMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $309,399 to it, the largest being ASCO FOUNDATION ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $309,399 in grants to EMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY?
- ASCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 12 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