Iowa · Nonprofit
LIVING FREE MINISTRIES
LIVING FREE MINISTRIES (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $268 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($268). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $50k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $268
- Net assets
- $60k
What Living Free Ministries does
Mission
The purpose of the organization is to provide christian ministry by educating women and helping women in need spiritually, emotionally, relationally, mentally, and physically in mason city, iowa and the surrounding area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Living free has 2 residential houses for women who are seeking support as they live out their commitment to sobriety from drugs and/or alcohol. Between the 2 homes there is room for a total of 7 women. The recommended stay is 6 months with the opportunity to apply to stay long-term (1-2 years). Residents must work full-time, meet weekly with a mentor/advisor, attend church of their choosing, attend celebrate recovery weekly, submit to substance testing, help maintain the home, and participate in a weekly house meeting. There is a 3 strike policy for infractions before dismissal happens. Living free gets many of its residents from the 28 day graduates of the local drug treatment program. Many women are referred to living free as a good option for ongoing support as they seek to solidify their sobriety with continued structure and accountability.
$40,229 spent92% of program spendingLiving free sponsors celebrate recovery for residents and other in the community. This international program is well structured and it serves both men and women seeking recovery from hurts, habits, and hang-ups. The first year of offering this program was just completed.
$3,583 spent8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $43,812.
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.
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 $54k to $67k (+24%).
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.
68% of LIVING FREE MINISTRIES’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. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $57 → $66.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LIVING FREE MINISTRIES’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.
Where its funders are
100% of LIVING FREE MINISTRIES'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $268 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LIVING FREE MINISTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LIVING FREE MINISTRIES
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIVING FREE MINISTRIES: 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 LIVING FREE MINISTRIES?
- LIVING FREE MINISTRIES (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $268 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($268). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIVING FREE MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $268 in grants to LIVING FREE MINISTRIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVING FREE MINISTRIES?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $268 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVING FREE MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 1 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