Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE
FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,835,158 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC ($402,785). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $0
What Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge does
Mission
To educate about american rights and responsibilities, honor acts of civic virtue, and challenge all to reject apathy and get involved.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Civic education: freedoms foundation offers education programs targeting primary and secondary school students. In 2023, eighteen programs for 921 primary school students focused on the founding of the country and establishing deeply personal connections to history. Sixteen programs for 742 high school and college students focused on civic responsibility, american history, and the founding documents. In 2023, programs were held in person on our 72-acre campus and included nearly 37,000 hours of student instruction in civic education.(continued on schedule o)freedoms foundation also offers education programs for teachers. In 2023, we welcomed 238 teachers to our in-person graduate programs, including 5 seminars and 1 traveling workshop, which provide history and civic content by exposing teachers to extraordinary scholars and thinkers in programs on the constitution, american history, character development, and american values. With teachers averaging 100 students in a single school year, this means more than 23,800 students were or will be impacted by freedoms foundation's efforts in the 2023-2024 school year.
$2,261,040 spent$768,163 earned by the program99% of program spendingHonoring acts of civic virtue: through its national awards program, freedoms foundation recognized 101 individuals and organizations in 2023 as examples of civic responsibility. This program recognizes adults and students for community service, public communications, student essays, special events, and outstanding work in the classroom. Since its founding, more than 57,000 national awards have been presented.
$31,331 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,292,371.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $13M 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
David J Harmer
CEO
Board chair
Jordan W Clements
Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $135k → $382k.
7 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 funders by total. 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
FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
37% 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 FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 22% · 2019 21% · 2020 24% · 2021 36% · 2022 31% · 2023 20% — 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
36% of FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $613k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge - Chapters · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE?
- FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,835,158 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC ($402,785). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $2,835,158 in grants to FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC is the largest funder on record, with $402,785 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2023), and the filings of 49 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