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FREESTATE JUSTICE INC

FREESTATE JUSTICE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,059,724 to it, the largest being MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($519,603). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
38
Grants received
$2.1M
Net assets
$-70668
17/38 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%
01What it does

What Freestate Justice Inc does

Mission

Freestate justice, inc is organized to advocate for, offer legal advice to, and represent members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community in legal and social endeavors. We also offer education, internship & externship opportunities for students of the state of maryland.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Pro bono legal services to low income lgbtq community members who cannot access the existing network for lawyers.

    $1,067,706 spent$16,363 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,067,706.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($543k) Expenses 100 ($627k) Net assets 100 ($287k)2020 Revenue 116 ($629k) Expenses 108 ($679k) Net assets 82 ($237k)2021 Revenue 125 ($677k) Expenses 95 ($598k) Net assets 110 ($316k)2022 Revenue 166 ($900k) Expenses 161 ($1.0M) Net assets 73 ($208k)2023 Revenue 177 ($961k) Expenses 185 ($1.2M) Net assets 2 ($7k)2024 Revenue 238 ($1.3M) Expenses 188 ($1.2M) Net assets 41 ($117k)2025 Revenue 208 ($1.1M) Expenses 210 ($1.3M) Net assets -25 ($-70668)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (208)Expenses (210)Net assets (-25)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 $393k to $239k (−39%).

$341k
$345k
$393k
$239k
$265k
$320k
$336k
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 38% · 2020 46% · 2021 51% · 2022 44% · 2023 22% · 2024 27% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of FREESTATE JUSTICE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,394 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$84k
’19
−$51k
’20
$80k
’21
−$108k
’22
−$201k
’23
$110k
’24
−$188k
’25
1.3
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.

Chief executive

Phillip Westry

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed18171313151515
Joined·+1+4+6+8+6+6
No longer listed·286666
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $118k → $346k.

5 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 FREESTATE JUSTICE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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

FREESTATE JUSTICE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

68% 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 FREESTATE JUSTICE INC.

25%
largest funder
45%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 32% · 2019 33% · 2020 47% · 2021 36% · 2022 41% · 2023 50% — 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

39% of FREESTATE JUSTICE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

66% of FREESTATE JUSTICE INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

IL
NY
OR
PA
CT
CA
MO
MD
DC

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $113k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FREESTATE JUSTICE INC has grown faster than half of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−17% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like FREESTATE JUSTICE INC

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In Maryland

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 19%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds FREESTATE JUSTICE INC?
FREESTATE JUSTICE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,059,724 to it, the largest being MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($519,603). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FREESTATE JUSTICE INC have?
IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $2,059,724 in grants to FREESTATE JUSTICE INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FREESTATE JUSTICE INC?
MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $519,603 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FREESTATE JUSTICE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 38 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing