Texas · Nonprofit
FREEDOM BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC
FREEDOM BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,711 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST ($296,728). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $454k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $390k
- Net assets
- $51k
What Freedom Business Alliance Inc does
Mission
The primary exempt purpose of the freedom business alliance is to scale the freedom business movement. Our vision is a job for every person healing from modern slavery and vulnerable to exploitation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Research and training - fba built and beta-tested an online training program to equip both freedom businesses and mainstream businesses to provide a healing-centered workplace for survivors of trafficking and those at risk. Fba's training program, wellwork, brings together a decade of freedom business research and practice into an online learning platform paired with a one-on-one guide. It is designed to help both freedom businesses and mainstream employers build workplaces where survivors of trafficking and people at risk can be hired, supported, and retained long term. In 2025, fba developed the program content and beta-tested it with practitioners to refine the modules prior to a broader release, and prepared a first pilot with an employer in indonesia scheduled to begin in 2026. This work extends practices proven within freedom businesses to the much larger pool of mainstream companies that can employ survivors, which is central to fba's goal of providing a job for every person healing from exploitation. Fba also conducted its annual member review in 2025, collecting and analyzing data across the network to measure progress and guide where resources are most needed.
$42,011 spent62% of program spendingFreedom business support - fba provided year-round support to its 120 member businesses across 28 countries, which together employ more than 2,500 survivors and at-risk individuals. Fba's members are freedom businesses dedicated to employing survivors of trafficking and people at risk, operating across nine industries. Running these businesses is more complex than operating a typical company, as members balance standard business demands with supporting a workforce healing from trauma, often in environments with limited infrastructure. In 2025, fba supported members in addressing these challenges through a pro bono legal network connecting them with attorneys, one-on-one business consulting, and peer connections that enable shared learning among organizations facing similar issues. During 2025, fba also initiated planning for its biennial forum, held in spring 2026, which brings members together from around the world for in-person connection and training. Members consistently describe this community, and the resources shared within it, as unique and not available elsewhere.
$24,486 spent36% of program spendingAwareness - fba brought new businesses, partners, and supporters into the movement through conference talks, workshops, and digital channels. Fba raises awareness that employment is a practical and sustainable solution to trafficking. Through conference presentations, panels, and workshops, as well as its blog, webinars, and social media, fba shares survivor-informed practices with audiences across sectors. This work attracts new freedom businesses into membership, connects fba with partners and professionals who support its members, and expands the base of donors who fund its mission.
$1,110 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $67,607.
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 2020 to 2021, from $28k to $72k (+158%).
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.
93% of FREEDOM BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Karen Schmidt
Executive director
Board chair
Rachel Nelson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $10k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 BUSINESS ALLIANCE 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
FREEDOM BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 51% · 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.
How long its funders stay
17% of FREEDOM BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 25% 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
95% of FREEDOM BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC'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 $18k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $372k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FREEDOM BUSINESS ALLIANCE 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FREEDOM BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC?
- FREEDOM BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,711 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST ($296,728). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FREEDOM BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $389,711 in grants to FREEDOM BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREEDOM BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC?
- INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $296,728 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREEDOM BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 8 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