Montana · Nonprofit
FREEDOM GARDENS
FREEDOM GARDENS (Montana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,885 to it, the largest being HEADWATERS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MONTANA ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $-105842
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $0
What Freedom Gardens does
Mission
Freedom Gardens has a mission to enhance local food security by demonstrating sustainable food production methods and providing opportunities for hands-onlearning. We strive to teach resilience to food scarcity througheco-conscious education programs about growing, preserving, and storingfood.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Freedom Gardens hosts a website (www.freedomgardens.us) and two social media platforms (instagram and facebook) where we post greenhouse happenings and our involvement in the community.
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $131k to $0 (−100%).
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. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $4k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of FREEDOM GARDENS’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 GARDENS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 77% · 2019 76% · 2020 55% · 2021 100% · 2022 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.
Where its funders are
82% of FREEDOM GARDENS's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like FREEDOM GARDENS
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
68%
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 GARDENS: 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 GARDENS?
- FREEDOM GARDENS (Montana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,885 to it, the largest being HEADWATERS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MONTANA ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREEDOM GARDENS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $29,885 in grants to FREEDOM GARDENS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREEDOM GARDENS?
- HEADWATERS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MONTANA is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREEDOM GARDENS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), and the filings of 5 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