Virginia · Nonprofit
FREEDOM ALLIANCE
FREEDOM ALLIANCE (Virginia) receives grants from 165 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,966,179 to it, the largest being JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC ($7,800,000). 101 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 165
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $59M
What Freedom Alliance does
Mission
Freedom Alliance is an educational and charitable organization whose mission is to advance the american heritage of freedom by honoring and encouraging military service, defending the sovereignty of the united states, and promoting a strong national defense. We carry out our mission through three programs-public policy,troop support, and a scholarship fund.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public policy and education: Freedom Alliance conducts research and offers analysis on public policy matters-especially those issues which impact americas national sovereignty, national defense, foreign policy, american history, and the role of government generally. Freedom Alliance educates the public on these matters through the publication of policy papers, newspaper columns and grassroots communications. Freedom Alliance also hosts or co-hosts conferences and seminars and provides opinion and analysis on issues of concern through the internet, talk radio, television talk shows, and newspapers.
$1,216,202 spent$141,025 earned by the program12% of program spendingSupport our troops: through this program, Freedom Alliance helps wounded troops reduce stress and anxiety, repair strained family relationships, recommit themselves to the long-term demands of their rehabilitation, achieve the most healthy and positive transition to civilian life that his or her injuries will allow. Our program helps injured service members at various stages of their rehabilitation. We provide customized wheelchairs, recreational therapy such as hunting and fishing, mortgage free homes, retreats for military families suffering the wounds of war, provide christmas gifts to children through our presents for patriots program, and award financial grants.
$4,728,790 spentof which $2,468,064 as grants46% of program spendingScholarship fund: Freedom Alliance provides college scholarships to students who are dependents of u.s. Military personnel who have been killed or permanently disabled in a combat mission or a training accident. Our scholarships are awarded to help the sons and daughters of american heroes achieve a college education and to honor service members who have sacrificed life or limb for our nation. During 2025, Freedom Alliance awarded scholarships to 920 students, issuing a total of $3,707,301 in scholarships. Through 2025, Freedom Alliance has awarded more than $33 million in scholarship assistance. Expenses associated with administering the scholarship fund are paid from unrestricted donations. In addition to the scholarships that have already been awarded, Freedom Alliance holds $33 million in a permanent trust fund for future scholarship recipients who are not yet of college age.
$4,348,484 spentof which $3,755,566 as grants42% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,293,476.
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 2023 to 2024, from $45M to $52M (+16%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of FREEDOM ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Calvin Coolidge
Executive Director
Board chair
Gerald Lindholm
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 41 funders to 72 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $2.9M.
22 of 165 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 FREEDOM ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 165 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
FREEDOM ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 55%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 FREEDOM ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 57% · 2019 50% · 2020 42% · 2021 43% · 2022 43% · 2023 43% — 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
56% of FREEDOM ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
55% of FREEDOM ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
FREEDOM ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 190 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 190 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like FREEDOM ALLIANCE
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.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FREEDOM ALLIANCE: 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 FREEDOM ALLIANCE?
- FREEDOM ALLIANCE (Virginia) receives grants from 165 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,966,179 to it, the largest being JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC ($7,800,000). 101 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREEDOM ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 165 organizations giving $18,966,179 in grants to FREEDOM ALLIANCE, 101 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREEDOM ALLIANCE?
- JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREEDOM ALLIANCE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 165 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