Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND
MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND (Minnesota) receives grants from 101 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,565,031 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($6,425,038). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 101
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Minnesota Freedom Fund does
Mission
The Minnesota Freedom Fund pays criminal bail and immigration bonds for those who cannot otherwise afford to as we seek to end discriminatory, coercive, and oppressive jailing.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, Minnesota Freedom Fund was active in supporting individuals with immigration bonds and pretrial bonds. Mff posted immigration bonds for 91 individuals. In addition, we provided paralegal support on numerous immigration cases, assisted in interpretation at ice offices and supported our clients after they were bonded out. Mff posted 495 pretrail bails (for 409 people), many of whom chose to receive additional post release support services from our organization. Supportive services include arranging rides to court, connecting clients with supportive services, and more. Mff spent time in the community presenting and educating people on the harms of pretrial bail and immigration detention, including by launching a court watch program in hennepin and ramsey counties.
$2,712,749 spentof which $101,372 as grants$413,461 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,712,749.
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 2019 to 2020, from $283k to $35M (+12163%).
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.
14% of MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Chanda Smith Baker
Interim exec. Dir. (thru 12/2024)
Board chair
Valentina Mckenzie
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $50k → $104k.
18 of 101 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 101 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
MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 95% · 2019 52% · 2020 57% · 2021 88% · 2022 80% · 2023 72% — 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
3% of MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 19% 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
55% of MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND'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 $6.6M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 23 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MINNESOTA 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Minnesota Freedom Fund Action · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MINNESOTA 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 MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND?
- MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND (Minnesota) receives grants from 101 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,565,031 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($6,425,038). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND have?
- IRS filings report 101 organizations giving $14,565,031 in grants to MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,425,038 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 101 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