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FREEDOM FARM

FREEDOM FARM (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being THE BUCHANAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$2k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$30k
Net assets
$0
1/2 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Freedom Farm does

Program

Transitional house for recovering alcoholics.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-PF.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($393k) Expenses 100 ($368k) Net assets 100 ($44k)2018 Revenue 100 ($391k) Expenses 102 ($375k) Net assets 137 ($60k)2019 Revenue 98 ($385k) Expenses 96 ($354k) Net assets 208 ($91k)2020 Revenue 57 ($226k) Expenses 71 ($260k) Net assets 130 ($57k)2021 Revenue 1 ($2k) Expenses 16 ($59k) Net assets 0 ($0)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (1)Expenses (16)Net assets (0)

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 $57k to $0 (−100%).

$45k
$61k
$92k
$57k
$0
20172018201920202021
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

20172018201920202021
Listed44443
Joined·+0+1+2+0
No longer listed·0121
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $10k.

Funder
'20
'21
total
funders
2
1

From the IRS filings of FREEDOM FARM’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 FARM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

67%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2021 100% — 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

100% of FREEDOM FARM's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

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

’20
’21
Illinois 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

Organizations like FREEDOM FARM

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FREEDOM FARM: 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 FARM?
FREEDOM FARM (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being THE BUCHANAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FREEDOM FARM have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $30,000 in grants to FREEDOM FARM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FREEDOM FARM?
THE BUCHANAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FREEDOM FARM find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 2 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