California · Nonprofit
FREE RAIN INTERNATIONAL INC
FREE RAIN INTERNATIONAL INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,662 to it, the largest being THE TERRY AND JULIE SMITH ZEPHYRUS FOUNDATION ($12,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $384k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $183k
What Free Rain International Inc does
Mission
Free Rain provides resources and empowering, educational programs to aid those enslaved, impoverished, and exploited. Our vision is to create options and opportunities for those rescued and oppressed in order to make positive and radical changes in our world. Our most significant activities are our vocational programs in Thailand for survivors and our training programs in the US for those wanting to fight injustice.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
We have started a new program in relation to our vocational training programs, Sew Free and Shear Love, called Project Baan. Project Baan is a safe housing project that provides homes for survivors who are in need while participating in our vocational programs as well as emergency housing for victims of trafficking. We are in the beginning stages of this program and only have a few homes available and are currently fundraising to build a larger scale site.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Our Shear Love International Program is our largest program. Our program in Thailand teaches vocational skills in hairdressing to men and women exiting trafficking, prostitution and abuse. Our holistic program includes, personal development and life skills course, English language classes, counseling services, medical care, housing, food, and an education in hair design. We also have partner orgs around the world for which we provide some funding and tools.
$122,768 spentof which $18,821 as grants63% of program spendingOur Injustice Response program trains and provides education to individuals in how to identify and combat human trafficking through seminars, conventions, online training courses and hands on training.
$41,791 spentof which $3,033 as grants22% of program spendingOur Sew Free Program teaches textile art and employs survivors of trafficking and exploitation. This program began in 2020 when we educate and employed over 20 women displaced from work due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This program now operates in tandem with our Shear Love school in Thailand.
$28,095 spentof which $18,821 as grants15% of program spendingMissionary Care provide mental health and living assistance services to overseas workers. In partnership with stateside and foreign counseling centers Free Rain covers the costs of counseling services for all volunteers and other partner overseas workers.
$75 spent0% of program spendingProject Baan
$800 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $193,529.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $34k to $183k (+443%).
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 FREE RAIN INTERNATIONAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Joe Vargas
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $251 → $233.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 FREE RAIN INTERNATIONAL 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
FREE RAIN INTERNATIONAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
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 FREE RAIN INTERNATIONAL INC's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k 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
FREE RAIN INTERNATIONAL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FREE RAIN INTERNATIONAL 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 California
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
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FREE RAIN INTERNATIONAL INC?
- FREE RAIN INTERNATIONAL INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,662 to it, the largest being THE TERRY AND JULIE SMITH ZEPHYRUS FOUNDATION ($12,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREE RAIN INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $13,662 in grants to FREE RAIN INTERNATIONAL INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREE RAIN INTERNATIONAL INC?
- THE TERRY AND JULIE SMITH ZEPHYRUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREE RAIN INTERNATIONAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 2 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