West Virginia · Nonprofit
Libera Inc
Libera Inc (West Virginia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,298,956 to it, the largest being Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc ($314,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $986k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $449k
What Libera Inc does
Mission
To educate and empower West Virginia women and teens to find freedom
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mentoring/Peer Support-During 2024, 323 Girls mentored in groups or individually in 10 West Virginia counties. We provided Libera groups in middle schools and high schools, foster congregate care homes, emergency shelters, youth reporting centers, and juvenile detention centers. Groups and mentoring are based on our Libera model. See Schedule O for additional discussion.
$508,153 spent$521,037 earned by the program85% of program spendingSocial Enterprise-Our Lila Bear program provided over 1,800 STEAM activity boxes to Title I elementary students across West Virginia, while also employing 4 young women who aged out of foster care. The Lila Bear Explor(her) Club iis a social enterprise started by Libera in 2022 to help educate, employ, and empower at-risk youth in West Virginia. We employed youth from the Libera Mentorship program to work part-time creating our STEAM activiity boxes inspired by the stories of Appalachian women and places and to help faciliitate our STEAM exploration programs in schools. Families can purchase our boxes online and have them shipped directly to their home anywhere in the US. All profits from this social enterprise are invested back into our nonprofit programs for mentoring, training, and elevating opportunities for at-risk youth across West Virginia. See Schedule O for additional discussion.
$88,100 spent$88,100 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $596,253.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $222k to $473k (+114%).
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: 2021 7% · 2022 13% · 2023 52% · 2024 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of Libera Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Karen Haring
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $30k → $104k.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Libera 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
Libera Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 90% · 2020 62% · 2021 50% · 2022 46% · 2023 68% — 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
20% of Libera Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
Libera Inc draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside West Virginia, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k 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.
Against its field
Libera Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Libera Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record — $1.1M federal, $571k state.
- Appalachian Regional Commission$875k
- Department of Health and Human Services$200k
- OR$400k
- NJ$170k
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 Libera 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 West Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% 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 Libera 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 Libera Inc?
- Libera Inc (West Virginia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,298,956 to it, the largest being Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc ($314,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Libera Inc have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,298,956 in grants to Libera Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Libera Inc?
- Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $314,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Libera Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 23 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