Kansas · Nonprofit
LIVE FREE MINISTRIES INC
LIVE FREE MINISTRIES INC (Kansas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $730,216 to it, the largest being McPherson County Community Foundation ($507,101). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $692k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $730k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Live Free Ministries Inc does
Mission
To help people live free through jesus christ and to be able to overcome their addictions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To provide a 3/4 house for men and women who need a structured lifestyle to help overcome addictions (omega houses)
$545,697 spent$160,832 earned by the program80% of program spendingTo provide a place where the individuals living in the omega houses can earn wages while learning trade skills (omega work force, a single member llc 27-2209848)
$136,389 spent$101,048 earned by the program20% of program spendingTo provide books (reading material) to help others to overcome addictions and find a relationship with jesus christ and perform inspirational speaking, weddings, and ministering services.
$18,180 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $682,086.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $687k to $1.0M (+48%).
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 6% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of LIVE FREE MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $25k → $114k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 LIVE FREE MINISTRIES 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
LIVE FREE MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 LIVE FREE MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 88% · 2022 87% · 2023 65% — 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
40% of LIVE FREE MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
75% of LIVE FREE MINISTRIES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $186k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $544k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
LIVE FREE MINISTRIES INC's revenue grew 42% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LIVE FREE MINISTRIES 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Omega Work Force LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIVE FREE MINISTRIES INC?
- LIVE FREE MINISTRIES INC (Kansas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $730,216 to it, the largest being McPherson County Community Foundation ($507,101). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIVE FREE MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $730,216 in grants to LIVE FREE MINISTRIES INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVE FREE MINISTRIES INC?
- McPherson County Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $507,101 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVE FREE MINISTRIES 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.
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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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