Michigan · Nonprofit
MICHIGAN FREEDOM FUND
MICHIGAN FREEDOM FUND (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $620,000 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN CITIZENS FOR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ($320,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $620k
- Net assets
- $818k
What Michigan Freedom Fund does
Mission
To educate the public on issues concerning fiscal responsibility, economic freedom, and the elimination of coercive and compulsory policies; promote these issues; and support legislative changes to embrace these issues.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Educated the public regarding merits and benefits of policies and proposed laws through mailings and public advertisements. Such efforts included government transparency and accountability, tax policy, and grassroots participation in the political process.
$2,756,770 spentof which $240,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,756,770.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $571k to $1.7M (+190%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Sarah Anderson
Executive director
Board chair
Nate Bailey
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of MICHIGAN FREEDOM FUND’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
MICHIGAN FREEDOM FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 MICHIGAN FREEDOM FUND.
“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.
Where its funders are
52% of MICHIGAN FREEDOM FUND's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like MICHIGAN FREEDOM FUND
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Michigan Freedom Network · exempt
- Foundation for Michigan Freedom · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MICHIGAN FREEDOM FUND: 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 MICHIGAN FREEDOM FUND?
- MICHIGAN FREEDOM FUND (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $620,000 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN CITIZENS FOR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ($320,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MICHIGAN FREEDOM FUND have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $620,000 in grants to MICHIGAN FREEDOM FUND.
- Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN FREEDOM FUND?
- MICHIGAN CITIZENS FOR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY is the largest funder on record, with $320,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MICHIGAN FREEDOM FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 3 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