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FREEDOMS FRONTIER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC

FREEDOMS FRONTIER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC (Kansas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,763 to it, the largest being BARTON P & MARY D COHEN CHARITABLE 2 ($165,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$956k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$236k
Net assets
$567k
5/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area Inc does

Mission

To build awareness of the struggles for freedom in eastern kansas and western missouri. We work to preserve and share the stories around three major themes; the settlement of the frontier, the border war and civil war, and the enduring struggle for freedom.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide support for kansas and missouri historical organizations and to research the actual facts about national heritage area and publish those facts in brochures and pamphlets for the general public.

    $796,652 spentof which $337,590 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $796,652.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($243k)2018 Revenue 93 ($1.2M) Expenses 79 ($1.3M) Net assets 86 ($210k)2019 Revenue 85 ($1.1M) Expenses 77 ($1.2M) Net assets 61 ($147k)2020 Revenue 86 ($1.1M) Expenses 73 ($1.2M) Net assets 45 ($109k)2021 Revenue 76 ($1.0M) Expenses 59 ($951k) Net assets 70 ($170k)2022 Revenue 84 ($1.1M) Expenses 55 ($876k) Net assets 174 ($422k)2023 Revenue 79 ($1.1M) Expenses 64 ($1.0M) Net assets 189 ($460k)2024 Revenue 98 ($1.3M) Expenses 76 ($1.2M) Net assets 227 ($552k)2025 Revenue 72 ($956k) Expenses 59 ($941k) Net assets 233 ($567k)
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Revenue (72)Expenses (59)Net assets (233)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $187k to $459k (+146%).

$243k
$210k
$147k
$138k
$187k
$459k
$478k
$585k
$620k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 65% · 2018 49% · 2019 81% · 2020 86% · 2021 92% · 2022 87% · 2023 91% · 2024 52% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of FREEDOMS FRONTIER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$267k
’17
−$32k
’18
−$91k
’19
−$18k
’20
$61k
’21
$252k
’22
$38k
’23
$93k
’24
$15k
’25
6.8
months of
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.

Board chair

Gary Nevius

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed282923243226232222
Joined·+7+1+2+13+1+4+3+0
No longer listed·67157740
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $32k → $1k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 FRONTIER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA 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

FREEDOMS FRONTIER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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

27% 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 FRONTIER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC.

70%
largest funder
90%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 87% · 2021 94% · 2022 93% — growing more concentrated.

“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

89% of FREEDOMS FRONTIER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC's grant income comes from Kansas funders.

KS
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Kansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FREEDOMS FRONTIER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve6.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding FREEDOMS FRONTIER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.1M on record.

Federal$4.1M
grants $4.1Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$4.1M
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$11k

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 FREEDOMS FRONTIER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC

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In Kansas

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 13%Fundraising 2%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds FREEDOMS FRONTIER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC?
FREEDOMS FRONTIER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC (Kansas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,763 to it, the largest being BARTON P & MARY D COHEN CHARITABLE 2 ($165,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FREEDOMS FRONTIER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $235,763 in grants to FREEDOMS FRONTIER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FREEDOMS FRONTIER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC?
BARTON P & MARY D COHEN CHARITABLE 2 is the largest funder on record, with $165,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FREEDOMS FRONTIER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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