Wisconsin · Nonprofit
FREE TO BREATHE
FREE TO BREATHE (Wisconsin) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,931 to it, the largest being HANSEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2017
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $61k
- Net assets
- $0
What Free to Breathe does
Mission
Free to Breathe's mission is to ensure surviving lung cancer is the expectation, not the exception.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
Free to Breathe community events, including run/walks, bike rides and yogathons were organized throughout the nation to raise awareness of and research dollars for lung cancer. In 2017, the Free to Breathe series took place in more than 40 locations and included a national walk, making it the largest branded national lung cancer event series. More than 10,000 people were involved in the events.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base narrowed from 20 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $44k → $3k.
1 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 TO BREATHE’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 TO BREATHE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
25% 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 TO BREATHE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 39% · 2019 94% — growing more concentrated.
“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
FREE TO BREATHE draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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.
Organizations like FREE TO BREATHE
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.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FREE TO BREATHE: 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 TO BREATHE?
- FREE TO BREATHE (Wisconsin) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,931 to it, the largest being HANSEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREE TO BREATHE have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $60,931 in grants to FREE TO BREATHE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREE TO BREATHE?
- HANSEN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREE TO BREATHE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 23 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