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I-5 FREEDOM NETWORK

I-5 FREEDOM NETWORK (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,221 to it, the largest being SAMUELI FOUNDATION ($82,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$275k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$297k
Net assets
$131k
6/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 54%
01What it does

What I-5 Freedom Network does

Mission

Human trafficing awareness/support/training equipping communities and survivors with the tools to disrupt the cycle of human trafficking through advocacy, prevention, and support.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Corporate training--personal and professional development workshops based on the dale carnegie method. Courses specifically designed for lived-experience human trafficing survivors. 4-8 week courses on business skills, decission making, communication skills, stress mgmt

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  2. Hospitality training- video and in house training of staff on awareness of human trafficking. Training includes areas of concern in each hotel/restaurant and procedures to address concerns

    $104,402 spent$275,070 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  3. Community awareness-training for local groups and subscribers to understand the different aspects of human trafficking and learn opportunities to engage

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $104,402.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($94k) Expenses 100 ($92k) Net assets 100 ($50k)2022 Revenue 165 ($155k) Expenses 180 ($165k) Net assets 108 ($54k)2023 Revenue 200 ($189k) Expenses 182 ($167k) Net assets 129 ($65k)2024 Revenue 181 ($171k) Expenses 177 ($163k) Net assets 145 ($72k)2025 Revenue 215 ($203k) Expenses 215 ($198k) Net assets 135 ($68k)2026 Revenue 292 ($275k) Expenses 226 ($208k) Net assets 261 ($131k)
202120222023202420252026
Revenue (292)Expenses (226)Net assets (261)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 2025 to 2026, from $68k to $131k (+93%).

$50k
$54k
$65k
$73k
$68k
$131k
202120222023202420252026
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of I-5 FREEDOM NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’21
−$10k
’22
$21k
’23
$8k
’24
$5k
’25
$67k
’26
7.5
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

Stacey Enmeier

Executive director

Board chair

Brenda Wells

Board chair/founder

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.

20252026
Listed89
Joined·+1
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $56k.

8 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 I-5 FREEDOM NETWORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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

I-5 FREEDOM NETWORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 I-5 FREEDOM NETWORK.

28%
largest funder
54%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 59% · 2022 28% · 2023 38% — 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

60% of I-5 FREEDOM NETWORK's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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 I-5 FREEDOM NETWORK's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

I-5 FREEDOM NETWORK runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 274 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

Organizations like I-5 FREEDOM NETWORK

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

50% of spending goes to programs.

Program 50%Management 31%Fundraising 19%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for I-5 FREEDOM NETWORK: 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 I-5 FREEDOM NETWORK?
I-5 FREEDOM NETWORK (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,221 to it, the largest being SAMUELI FOUNDATION ($82,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does I-5 FREEDOM NETWORK have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $297,221 in grants to I-5 FREEDOM NETWORK, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of I-5 FREEDOM NETWORK?
SAMUELI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $82,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like I-5 FREEDOM NETWORK find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 14 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