Virginia · Nonprofit
FIGHTING 4 FREEDOM
FIGHTING 4 FREEDOM (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $171,000 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($113,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $105k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $171k
- Net assets
- $20k
What Fighting 4 Freedom does
Mission
Since its founding in 2016 Fighting 4 Freedom has been dedicated to advocating for individuals who are wrongfully convicted or serving excessive and outdated sentences. The organizations mission is to pursue justice and second chances through clemency advocacy sentence modifications parole support and compassionate release efforts at both the state and federal levels. Fighting 4 Freedom works directly with incarcerated individuals and their families with a focus on those sentenced as juveniles individuals impacted by mandatory minimum laws and those serving lengthy sentences for nonviolent offenses. In addition to case advocacy the organization engages in policy reform efforts addressing sentencing inequities probation reform. Fighting4Freedom believes in second chances. Therefore providing services to incarcerated individuals helping prepare parole packets and advocate for their release. We helped more than twenty- eight individuals be released.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Assisted incarcerated individuals with parole packets for parole for parole hearing attended actual parole hearing to advocate on our client behalf. Parole packets and clemency applications.
$82,325 spentof which $82,325 as grants78% of program spendingTraveled to several states North Carolina Tennesse Alabama and Georgia. We advocated for release of our clients through parole pardons and compassionate release.
$4,320 spentof which $4,320 as grants4% of program spendingAssisted clients and family members through education of how the prison system works and how to be a support to their loved ones. Discussed realistic expectations. Total new clients this year
$18,314 spentof which $18,314 as grants17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $104,959.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $16k to $18k (+15%).
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.
100% of FIGHTING 4 FREEDOM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 FIGHTING 4 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
FIGHTING 4 FREEDOM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 FIGHTING 4 FREEDOM.
“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
94% of FIGHTING 4 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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $161k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
FIGHTING 4 FREEDOM has grown faster than half of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FIGHTING 4 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
88%
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 FIGHTING 4 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 FIGHTING 4 FREEDOM?
- FIGHTING 4 FREEDOM (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $171,000 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($113,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FIGHTING 4 FREEDOM have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $171,000 in grants to FIGHTING 4 FREEDOM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIGHTING 4 FREEDOM?
- RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $113,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIGHTING 4 FREEDOM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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