Colorado · Nonprofit
Free the Oppressed
Free the Oppressed (Colorado) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,842,359 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,727,485). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Free the Oppressed does
Mission
To bring help hope and love to people of all faiths and ethnicities in the conflict areas to shine a light on the actions of oppressors to stand with the oppressed and support leaders and organizations committed to liberty justice and service.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Burma Ministries - Throughout 2024 Free the Oppressed was able to provide help hope and love to oppressed people on the run from violence and in villages throughout Burma. We provided food medicine and spiritual training to Internally Displaced People IDPs throughout Burma including the following states: Karen Karenni Kachin Chin and Shan state. We had the opportunity to provide aid to IDPs seeking refuge from the Burma Army attacks. While doing this teams came together to provide medical care and spiritual care for those in need. Setting up in the jungle in difficult circumstances our medics were able to provide lifesaving care to thousands of people. We conducted our ranger training program and advanced ranger program again this year. We then send teams out to go on mission throughout Burma. Each team has a medic trained to diagnose and treat the medical problems of internally displaced people living in Burma. We also continued to support our Jungle School of Medicine Kawthoolei JSMK during 2024. Through the JSMK program FTO provides medical care to IDPs as well as trains future medics & doctors. For our teams in Karen State FBRs medic training is conducted at the JSMK.…
$4,232,483 spent80% of program spendingMiddle East Ministries - In 2024 Free the Oppressed had the privilege of delivering medical care to 906 patients across 21 different Internally Displaced People IDP camps in northeast Syria. We performed various procedures such as fracture splinting and wound cleaning for diabetic foot infections. For patients needing specialty care such as those with congenital heart diseases and cancers we referred them to more advanced facilities for further treatment. We also provided prenatal care to 12 pregnant women and treated over 100 chronic disease patients. Among them six were newly diagnosed with type two diabetes and two with high blood pressure. We also followed up with 15 young patients suffering from congenital heart diseases; we found some families are struggling to access or afford the complex surgeries their children need. In Syria one of the most devastated families we encountered consisted of four members who were sick three of whom face serious life-threatening conditions. We provided the father with medications for three months and some financial support for his next chemotherapy session as well as set up consultations for the other family members to see medical…
$421,538 spent8% of program spendingThailand Ministries - In 2024 Free the Oppressed provided much needed help hope and love to many individuals and communities throughout Thailand. We purchased and installed solar electricity equipment to provide electricity to villagers and communities that live in darkness. In addition to solar projects we supplied medical aid to patients in Thailand including hospital fees food transportation and spiritual support. During 2024 many people were devastated by massive flooding throughout Thailand and Burma. Our teams were able to provide support and relief to people in the surrounding communities who were affected by the flooding. Our Good Life Club teams also provided six different Good Life Club programs throughout villages. Through these programs FTO focuses on childrens needs in the conflict areas. We address spiritual and physical health as well as provide relief supplies including clothes and personal necessities. The teams provide a lesson in basic health and hygiene teaching basic practices and ideas to protect against preventable illness. Our teams brought joy education and hope to over 500 kids in Thailand through the Good Life Club programs. We also provided aid to…
$370,386 spent7% of program spendingAdvocacy
$264,414 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,288,821.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.7M to $6.6M (+144%).
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.
95% of Free the Oppressed’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Dave Eubank
Director CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $516k → $2.0M.
25 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 the Oppressed’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 funders by total. 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 the Oppressed leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 Free the Oppressed.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 72% · 2019 43% · 2020 37% · 2021 24% · 2022 75% · 2023 36% — 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
48% of Free the Oppressed's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
91% of Free the Oppressed'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 $1.0M that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 19 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
Free the Oppressed is better cushioned than half of the 1,608 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,608 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Free the Oppressed
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 Free the Oppressed: 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 Free the Oppressed?
- Free the Oppressed (Colorado) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,842,359 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,727,485). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Free the Oppressed have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $10,842,359 in grants to Free the Oppressed, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Free the Oppressed?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,727,485 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Free the Oppressed find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 62 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