Texas · Nonprofit
FAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC
FAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $729,580 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ($150,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $730k
- Net assets
- $762k
What Families to Freedom Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to transport victims of abuse to safety. We provide transportation to shelter or reunite with family far away.Our vision is to create healthy communities by ending abuse across America.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ride to safety: Families to Freedom provides free car/van rides to arrive at secure victim-services crisis centers, to long-term programs, and rides to relocate to family or to housing far away. We have two Texas offices located in Dallas and Houston serving victims calling from a combined service area of 87 urban and rural counties. In 2025 we transported 1,227 victims and their 1,122 children for a total of 2,349 people. Our volunteers and staff embarked on 1,204 trips arriving to domestic violence shelters, plus 272 journeys to family homes far away from the perpetrator. Shelter arrivals usually only incur fuel costs while multi-state road trips incur a variety of travel costs (fuel food overnight lodging vehicle maintenance tolls).
$515,678 spent68% of program spendingTicket to Ride: We provided sheltered survivors the means to relocate to family and friends by bus, Amtrak, or commercial flight 117 times in 2025. In addition to purchasing a ticket for long-distance travel, we also provide a free ride to the bus depot or airport (bus tickets commercial flight tickets train tickets). For many of our clients we upgraded their luggage from trash bags to suitcases and travel bags donated from the community.
$193,453 spent25% of program spendingFuel assistance: Fuel is available for victims and new survivors who have a vehicle but cant afford the cost of gas to drive far away to family members or friends for support after abuse or to shelter in another county. We gave 83 fuel cards to new survivors in 2025 who were able to drive themselves to safety. For many of our clients, we also gave them donated food gift cards to help afford meals during their long journey.
$54,675 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $763,806.
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.
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 $609k to $807k (+33%).
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 56% · 2021 61% · 2022 72% · 2023 64% · 2024 58% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Sarah Nejdl
CEO
Board chair
Oweida Carter
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $5k → $163k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 FAMILIES TO 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
FAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
67% 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 FAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 74% · 2019 47% · 2020 43% · 2021 41% · 2022 42% · 2023 31% — 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
38% of FAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
87% of FAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $180k 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
FAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FAMILIES TO 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.
In Texas
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
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC: 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 FAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC?
- FAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $729,580 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ($150,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $729,580 in grants to FAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC?
- UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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