North Carolina · Nonprofit
Freedom Life Ministries
Freedom Life Ministries (North Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,528,745 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($1,212,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Freedom Life Ministries does
Mission
Freedom Life is a faith-based nonprofit grounded in values of restoration and accountability helping justice involved individuals and their families break the cycle of incarceration. We provide inclusive evidence-informed support to justice-involved people to help them achieve long-term stability. FL offers two service tracks to ensure care is accessible respectful and effective for everyone we serve. The Personal Development Track non-faith-based provides evidence-based services focused on behavioral change life skills employment readiness and successful community reintegration. The Faith-Based Track includes all core services with the additional of optional spiritual support pastoral care and opportunities for faith-centered growth and connection. With a 15% recidivism rate well below the state and national average of 44% Freedom Life demonstrates the power of consistent community-based support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Freedom Life Ministries FL provides comprehensive reentry services to justice-involved individuals across Western North Carolina with a focus on reducing recidivism stabilizing individuals and families and strengthening community outcomes. In 2025 FL served 967 individuals including 745 in McDowell County 121 in Avery County and 101 in Yancey County. Participants face significant barriers to successful reintegration including substance use disorders housing instability limited transportation and lack of employment opportunities. Through its integrated service model FL achieved a recidivism rate of approximately 14% among participants significantly below typical state and national benchmarks. FL delivered 8,568 service instances during the year including case management mentoring recovery support employment readiness and coordination with community partners. Transportation remains a critical component of service delivery in rural areas; FL provided 32,190 miles of transportation to ensure access to court appointments treatment services employment and other essential resources. Pre-release engagement is a core component of FLs model. In 2025 FL processed 229 jail-based applications…
$1,239,090 spentof which $204,610 as grants100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
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The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,239,090.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.6M to $2.8M (+83%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 25% · 2020 41% · 2021 23% · 2022 52% · 2023 17% · 2024 38% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Freedom Life Ministries’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
Chief executive
Danny Hampton
Executive Director
Board chair
Doug Beane-Hall
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $6k → $871.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Life Ministries’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 Life Ministries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 65% · 2022 96% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
25% of Freedom Life Ministries's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 24% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of Freedom Life Ministries's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $87k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
Freedom Life Ministries runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Freedom Life Ministries receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.3M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Freedom Life Ministries
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.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Blue Ridge Community Care Services · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Freedom Life Ministries: 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 Life Ministries?
- Freedom Life Ministries (North Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,528,745 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($1,212,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Freedom Life Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,528,745 in grants to Freedom Life Ministries, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Freedom Life Ministries?
- DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,212,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Freedom Life Ministries 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 17 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