Minnesota · Nonprofit
FREEDOM FLIGHT INC
FREEDOM FLIGHT INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,663 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($34,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $103k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $39k
- Net assets
- $91k
What Freedom Flight Inc does
Mission
Freedom flight is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that flies hot air balloons to support the prisoner of war / missing in action issues. We are privately funded by random donors , like you. We are all volunteers! Our volunteers manage all aspects of our operation. Everything from the pilots, the crew, the artwork, the website, the events are all developed by volunteers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Freedom flight (ffi) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that flies hot air balloons to support the prisoner of war / missing in action (pow-mia) issues. Freedom flight is privately funded by random donors, as well as through event sponsorship, such as fraternal and civic organizations. Ffi is an all-volunteer organization. Ffi volunteers manage all aspects of our operation. Everyone and everything, from the pilots, the crew, the artwork, the website, to include the events are all developed by volunteers. Additionally, many of these events are accompanied by pilots from as many as 22+ countries, thereby spreading the message of the pow-mia campaign and furthering the accomplishment of our mission.
$58,305 spent100% of program spendingFreedom flight, inc. (ffi) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that flies hot air balloons to support the prisoner of war / missing in action issues to varying diverse, exceptional, and wide-ranging community events. Many of these are festivals and fairs that promote philanthropy, volunteerism, and community camaraderie. Innumerable volunteers from the local communities and surrounding areas assist in the conduct of these festivals and fairs. Ffi is privately funded by random donors, many individuals like you. We are all volunteers! Our volunteers manage all aspects of our operation. Everyone and everything from the pilots, the crew, the artwork, the website, as well as the events are all developed by volunteers.
$0 spent0% of program spendingParticipation in the extensive and varying festivals and fairs are geographically conducted across the united states, from coast to coast . Festivals are community established, private, non-profit, non-political foundations whose missions are to celebrate, teach, honor, and strengthen the traditional american values of faith, family, freedom, and country, especially honoring our prisoners of war and those still missing in action from all wars. Freedom flight is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that flies hot air balloons to support the prisoner of war / missing in action issues. We are privately funded by random donors, many individuals like you. Ffi is an all-volunteer non-profit. Our volunteers manage all aspects of our operation. Everyone and everything, from the pilots, the crew, the artwork, the website, as well as the events are all developed by volunteers.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $58,305.
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.
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 $104k to $148k (+42%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $581 → $8k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 FLIGHT 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 FLIGHT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
88% 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 FLIGHT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 86% · 2021 98% · 2022 75% · 2023 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
88% of FREEDOM FLIGHT 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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like FREEDOM FLIGHT 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FREEDOM FLIGHT INC: 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 FLIGHT INC?
- FREEDOM FLIGHT INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,663 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($34,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FREEDOM FLIGHT INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $38,663 in grants to FREEDOM FLIGHT INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREEDOM FLIGHT INC?
- COMMUNITYGIVING is the largest funder on record, with $34,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREEDOM FLIGHT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 4 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