Missouri · Nonprofit
FREEDOM ARTS AND EDUCATION CENTER
FREEDOM ARTS AND EDUCATION CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,647 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($65,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $193k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $204k
- Net assets
- $4k
What Freedom Arts and Education Center does
Mission
Freedom Arts and Education Center creates artistic academic and advancement opportunities to feed heal and teach the youth of St. Louis. Since 2012 we have supported youth through accessible community arts programs educational resources academic enrichment and tutoring in-school advocacy job opportunities and mentoring.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Arts: Our Arts programs ensure that the arts reach youth in systemically divested parts of the St. Louis region. We provide community arts training arts learning and arts education experiences in both in-school and out-of-school hours. Youth learn to create and consume art that is culturally relevant challenging to the status quo and uplifting to the community. They learn to leverage the arts to empower each other to build sustainable creative lives. 882 youth across the St. Louis region received ongoing arts education and learning experiences.
$0 spentAdvancement: Our Advancement programs focus on group and one-on-one mentoring financial support for families in our community youth advocacy in our schools and legal system and job training and placement for youth within our organization. We believe that progress means every human being understands their God-given image realizes and utilizes the talents and abilities within is firmly rooted in a loving community and obtains the resources to live truly free.
$0 spentAcademics: Our Academic programs create access to valuable educational resources including tutoring and academic enrichment in both the in-school and out-of-school hours. We work with our scholars to ensure they graduate at the top of their class earn high school equivalency and are leaders in their schools and communities without succumbing to intellectual colonization. Approximately 40 youth attended our after school program and showed measurable improvement in literacy mathematics and behavior in their schools.
$0 spentOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
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 $28k to $8k (−71%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 10% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of FREEDOM ARTS AND EDUCATION CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% 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.
Chief executive
Andrew Gibson
Executive Director
Board chair
Toni Connors
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $44k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 ARTS AND EDUCATION CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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 ARTS AND EDUCATION CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 ARTS AND EDUCATION CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 48% · 2020 62% · 2021 37% · 2022 83% · 2023 45% — 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
40% of FREEDOM ARTS AND EDUCATION CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
64% of FREEDOM ARTS AND EDUCATION CENTER'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 $73k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $131k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 ARTS AND EDUCATION CENTER receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $204k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding FREEDOM ARTS AND EDUCATION CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $37k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$37k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FREEDOM ARTS AND EDUCATION CENTER
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FREEDOM ARTS AND EDUCATION CENTER?
- FREEDOM ARTS AND EDUCATION CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,647 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($65,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FREEDOM ARTS AND EDUCATION CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $203,647 in grants to FREEDOM ARTS AND EDUCATION CENTER, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREEDOM ARTS AND EDUCATION CENTER?
- ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREEDOM ARTS AND EDUCATION CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 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