Ohio · Nonprofit
RESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATION
RESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,072,927 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($6,656,196). 19 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
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Restavek Freedom Foundation does
Mission
To provide educational, professional and vocational opportunities that will lift young haitians out of poverty and provide them with marketable skills and mentorship through case management programs; to raise awareness on the situation of children in domestic service and mobilize effots to end the system of restavek (child slavery) in haiti.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Since our inception in 2007, child advocacy continues to be the heartbeat of the work of Restavek Freedom Foundation. Currently the organization partners with 130 schools in the west and south departments to provide tuition, books and uniforms for more than 1,800 children. 40 child advocates each case manage an average portfolio of 45 children providing encouragement and ongoing support through a trusting relationship. Advocates meet with children at school and monitor their academic progress and meet with children at home to monitor their protection and treatment in their home environment. Each advocate oversees academic, health, psychological and social development and home life of each child. The organization maintains an extensive secure database of case files and each child's pertinent information to monitor progress. Restavek freedom also works to reunite children with their biological families when possible, while continuing to pay for school. Additionally, the organization operates a transitional home for girls who were living in the worst cases of abuse. 13 girls lived in this home during 2023, receiving educations support, medcial care, psychosocial therapy, love and…
$963,133 spent35% of program spendingRf justice training is hosted throughout haiti utilizing the expertise of 7 local trainers in more than 35 communities, engaging more than 2700 participants in 2023. The training is designed to influence communities toward ending the destructive practice. The six-week program re-examines the culturally entrenched exploitation of children in restavek. Participants confront harmful traditions and design local alternatives that protect children. The training introduces the haitian laws that protect children and create child protection committees that work in various communities to raise awareness of the situation of children as well as act as child protectors in their communities, bringing to the attention of authorities and rf advocates situations of abuse.
$340,948 spent12% of program spendingRural community programs are an increasing focus as the organization continues to spread its reach. The community center continues to function in the southern region of haiti, offering classes to parents, activites such as reproductive health programs, a four-year english education program, professional training, vocational training in electrical, plumbing and construction trades. Teachers take their literacy training programs into mountainous communities where residents live in more remote areas. The center hosts summer camps for more than 1200 children and leadership classes for youth. The center provides jobs for more than 40 people directly. Rf opened 7 new regional hubs, now operating in 5 departments of haiti. Each hub offers similar programs as the port salut learning center and together serve more than 700 adults and children. Multiple summer camps are offered in each location, in total hosting more than 1950 program and local children in 2023. In 2023 rf provided more than 225 fruit bearing trees to community members, churches and schools throughout the port salut region working to build an agroforestry and gardening program that will create food sustainability for…
$615,417 spent22% of program spendingThe organization has become a leading voice for children in restavek with haitian leaders, international media outlets, and u.s. Based organizations. In 2022 services were expanded into the central plateau with more learning centers.
$859,349 spent31% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,778,847.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $3.9M to $4.6M (+18%).
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 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $2.0M → $1.6M.
13 of 33 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 RESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
RESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 RESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 46% · 2019 52% · 2020 70% · 2021 66% · 2022 74% · 2023 72% — growing more concentrated.
“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
53% of RESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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 RESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATION'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 $3.0M that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Organizations like RESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATION
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATION: 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 RESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATION?
- RESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,072,927 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($6,656,196). 19 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 RESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $12,072,927 in grants to RESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATION?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,656,196 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 33 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing