Wisconsin · Nonprofit
FIRST FREEDOMS FOUNDATION INC
FIRST FREEDOMS FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300,000 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($300,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $133k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $300k
- Net assets
- $27k
What First Freedoms Foundation Inc does
Mission
Civil liberties education and legal representation.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Federal litigation challenging fec guidance regarding disclosure of small dollar donors who do not request their donations to 501(c)(4) groups be used for independent expenditures. Directly affected 2,000+ small donors to plaintiff organization and all donors to similarly situated organizations. Approximately 35% of expenditures.
$36,835 spent44% of program spendingResearch and analyses of state voter database, absentee registration and voting, and compliance with help america vote act. Affected voters statewide. Approximately 35% of expenditures.
$36,835 spent44% of program spendingAdministrative petition regarding exclusion of religious college students from participation in higher education aids program. Directly affected 500+ students and all students in similarly situated colleges. Approximately 10% of expenditures.
$10,524 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $84,194.
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 $2k to $27k (+1418%).
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 FIRST FREEDOMS FOUNDATION INC’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 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Michael Dean
Executive director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $150k → $125k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FIRST FREEDOMS FOUNDATION 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.
Where its funders are
100% of FIRST FREEDOMS FOUNDATION INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $300k 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
FIRST FREEDOMS FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,421 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,421 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022
Organizations like FIRST FREEDOMS FOUNDATION 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 Wisconsin
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FIRST FREEDOMS FOUNDATION INC?
- FIRST FREEDOMS FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300,000 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($300,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FIRST FREEDOMS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $300,000 in grants to FIRST FREEDOMS FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST FREEDOMS FOUNDATION INC?
- Donors Trust Inc is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST FREEDOMS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2021–2022), and the filings of 1 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