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FREEDOM COMMITTEE OF ORANGE COUNTY

FREEDOM COMMITTEE OF ORANGE COUNTY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $252,850 to it, the largest being STANLEY W EKSTROM FOUNDATION INC ($252,850). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$69k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$253k
Net assets
$127k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 66%
01What it does

What Freedom Committee of Orange County does

Mission

To enhance education by providing veteran military speakers who share their personal military experiences with the students.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provide living history education to students based on real life experiences from military veterans.

    $48,040 spentof which $2,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $48,040.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($88k) Expenses 100 ($85k) Net assets 100 ($16k)2018 Revenue 154 ($136k) Expenses 149 ($126k) Net assets 163 ($25k)2019 Revenue 166 ($146k) Expenses 146 ($124k) Net assets 308 ($48k)2020 Revenue 85 ($76k) Expenses 20 ($17k) Net assets 683 ($106k)2022 Revenue 112 ($99k) Expenses 60 ($51k) Net assets 969 ($151k)2023 Revenue 34 ($30k) Expenses 75 ($63k) Net assets 754 ($117k)2024 Revenue 56 ($50k) Expenses 65 ($55k) Net assets 721 ($112k)2025 Revenue 78 ($69k) Expenses 64 ($54k) Net assets 814 ($127k)
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Revenue (78)Expenses (64)Net assets (814)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $48k to $106k (+121%).

$16k
$25k
$48k
$106k
$151k
$117k
$112k
$127k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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2020
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

85% of FREEDOM COMMITTEE OF ORANGE COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’17
$10k
’18
$23k
’19
$58k
’20
$48k
’22
−$33k
’23
−$5k
’24
$15k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $8k.

Funder
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total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of FREEDOM COMMITTEE OF ORANGE COUNTY’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.

Where its funders are

100% of FREEDOM COMMITTEE OF ORANGE COUNTY's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FREEDOM COMMITTEE OF ORANGE COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

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 COMMITTEE OF ORANGE COUNTY?
FREEDOM COMMITTEE OF ORANGE COUNTY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $252,850 to it, the largest being STANLEY W EKSTROM FOUNDATION INC ($252,850). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FREEDOM COMMITTEE OF ORANGE COUNTY have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $252,850 in grants to FREEDOM COMMITTEE OF ORANGE COUNTY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FREEDOM COMMITTEE OF ORANGE COUNTY?
STANLEY W EKSTROM FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $252,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FREEDOM COMMITTEE OF ORANGE COUNTY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 1 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