Tennessee · Nonprofit
Freedom From Unnecessary Negatives
Freedom From Unnecessary Negatives (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,243 to it, the largest being EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ($20,243). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $275k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $24k
What Freedom From Unnecessary Negatives does
Mission
Our crime prevention initiative is our most significant activity, addressing contributors to crime in economically disadvantaged communities, youth and their families.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Programs
Clean Pathway Program is our ex-offender training, work opportunity,and anti-blight initiative. We are provide work opportunities to ex-offenders. Participants receive work ethics training, soft skills training,resources and tools that empower them financially and the opportunity to to society as productive citizens. 100+ schools in three high crime communites were serviced in our anti-blight initiative, 71% of participants were ex-felons with an 83% not returning to prison or crime.
$127,742 spentof which $125,000 as grants56% of program spendingCrime Prevention program include initiatives empower economically disadvantaged youth and their families, victims, and ex-offenders to overcome adverse experiences that hinder them from achieving success, advancing academically, obtaining financial freedom, and resolving conflict, resulting in them becoming productive citizens, helps to create more vital and safer communities and build stronger family units.
$101,025 spentof which $101,000 as grants44% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2020 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $228,767.
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.
Board chair
Stanley Lipford
Chairman
As listed on its FY2020 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Freedom From Unnecessary Negatives’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 From Unnecessary Negatives 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% 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 From Unnecessary Negatives.
“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
Freedom From Unnecessary Negatives draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states in all.
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.
Against its field
Freedom From Unnecessary Negatives receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,353 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2020
Organizations like Freedom From Unnecessary Negatives
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Freedom From Unnecessary Negatives: 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 From Unnecessary Negatives?
- Freedom From Unnecessary Negatives (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,243 to it, the largest being EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ($20,243). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Freedom From Unnecessary Negatives have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $30,243 in grants to Freedom From Unnecessary Negatives.
- Who is the largest funder of Freedom From Unnecessary Negatives?
- EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,243 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Freedom From Unnecessary Negatives find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2020–2020), 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