North Carolina · Nonprofit
Freedom In Me Business Showers
Freedom In Me Business Showers (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $123k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $45k
- Net assets
- $2k
What Freedom In Me Business Showers does
Mission
Freedom In Me Business Showers is a national small business accelerator and ecosystem builder that equips early-stage entrepreneurs with the training, mentorship, and access to capital needed to start, grow, and sustain successful businesses. Our holistic approach develops both the business and the individual, integrating personal growth, wellness, and professional development to strengthen long-term success. We bridge the gap between vision and viability by activating networks, deploying resources, and positioning entrepreneurs to secure funding, build capacity, and create generational impact.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Business Showers Entrepreneur Development Program directly served approximately 50 early-stage entrepreneurs through its annual training, coaching, assessment, and business-development process. The annual Business Showers event also engaged more than 200 attendees and community stakeholders.
$123,118 spentof which $49,789 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $123,118.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $79k to $25k (−69%).
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.
93% of Freedom In Me Business Showers’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Donja Williams
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 In Me Business Showers’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 In Me Business Showers's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
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 In Me Business Showers receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Freedom In Me Business Showers
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 North Carolina
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 In Me Business Showers: 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 In Me Business Showers?
- Freedom In Me Business Showers (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Freedom In Me Business Showers have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $45,000 in grants to Freedom In Me Business Showers, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Freedom In Me Business Showers?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Freedom In Me Business Showers find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), 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