Virginia · Nonprofit
Freedom Museum Inc
Freedom Museum Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,903 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,200). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $104k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $19k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Freedom Museum Inc does
Mission
Mission is to preserve & retell these stories - documenting our local veterans & their valor, exploring their contributions to history, & evoking a renewed sense of American pride.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Footlocker Program Schools and other non-profits can book the "Footlocker Program" for your classroom or organization. our veteran staff will come to your school or organization with artifacts and source documents to teach a class on a Freedom Museum topic, such as "WWII, what it was like in uniform and on the home front." The Freedom Museum will also park their B-25 bomber on a trailer or MASH Ambulance in a parking lot near your classroom/location to enhance the students learning experience. Our goal is instill that "Freedom is not Free"
$721 spent1% of program spendingMaintaining s store front Museum, open to the public at no fee. The museum eras begin with WWI through and including the Afghanistan conflict. Our "Wall of Heroes" Include all the who sacrifice the live in defense of our country from WWI to present. Each individual history listed is available on a database available. The Freedom Museum is staffed by a dedicated group of volunteers. No salaries are paid and all donations of time and money go directly to advancing the mission of the Museum. Many of them are walking artifacts and can tell you how their service made history.
$52,367 spent$17,953 earned by the program97% of program spendingParticipated in community events such as Veteran Parade, Veteran-sponsored events. We take some of our artifacts to enhance the footprint of museum.
$1,050 spent2% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $54,138.
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
James Porter
CEO/President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $250 → $10k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 Museum 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 Museum Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
54% 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 Museum Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
54% of Freedom Museum 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 $9k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Against its field
Freedom Museum Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Freedom Museum 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Museum 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 Museum Inc?
- Freedom Museum Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,903 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,200). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Freedom Museum Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $18,903 in grants to Freedom Museum Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Freedom Museum Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Freedom Museum Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2025–2025), 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