California · Nonprofit
SHIELD OF FREEDOM
SHIELD OF FREEDOM (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,381 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($150,000). 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
- $371k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $297k
- Net assets
- $133k
What Shield of Freedom does
Mission
Shield of Freedom is an all-volunteer non-profit organization dedicated to providing humanitarian assistance and direct aid to people in democratic countries who are under threat and facing humantarian crises resulting from various causes, including invasions, conflicts and natural disasters. We seek to help bridge gaps in support where u.s. Aid falls short.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The humanitarian aid &crisis response program provides life-saving support to ukrainian civilians and defenders in areas most severely impacted by ongoing russian aggression. This program addresses urgent and continuously evolving needs in frontline regions by delivering critical equipment, medical supplies, and reliable communication tools. All aid is non-lethal and is procured, transported, and distributed through vetted partners and volunteer networks with direct access to vulnerable communities and frontline medical units. Our goal is simple: to save lives, increase resilience, and ensure that frontline responders have the essential tools required to operate safely and effectively.
$404,850 spentof which $404,850 as grants98% of program spendingThe cultural activities program preserves, celebrates, and shares ukrainian culture with diverse communities throughout california and beyond. In partnership with the house of ukraine, namysto dance group, and the ukrainian rock band u3zub, the program creates meaningful opportunities for cultural exchange through music, dance, art, and shared traditions. At a time when ukraines identity is under existential threat, these cultural activities serve as both a celebration of heritage and a powerful form of resilience, education, and community building. Through accessible, engaging public events, Shield of Freedom fosters cross-cultural understanding, strengthens the ukrainian diaspora, and raises awareness of ukraines history, values, and contemporary reality.
$9,014 spent$12,771 earned by the program2% of program spendingThe healing heroes community hub provides wraparound support for ukrainian veterans, amputees, medical evacuees, refugees, and war-related trauma survivors receiving care or resettling in san diego. This program helps individuals rebuild physical health, emotional well-being, independence, and dignity following life-altering injuries, displacement, and loss caused by the war in ukraine. Through a holistic, person-centered approach, healing heroes ensures participants are not only medically supported, but also welcomed into a compassionate, inclusive community. When we have disbursement on this program, we will report this as our additional program.
$486 spent0% of program spendingThe ukraine advocacy mobilizes public support through education, civic engagement, and outreach that counteracts misinformation and elevates the ongoing humanitarian and security needs of ukraine.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $414,350.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $47k to $137k (+193%).
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.
96% of SHIELD OF FREEDOM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Mira Rubin
Director/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 4 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 SHIELD OF FREEDOM’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
SHIELD OF FREEDOM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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 SHIELD OF FREEDOM.
“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
100% of SHIELD OF FREEDOM'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 $180 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $297k 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
SHIELD OF FREEDOM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SHIELD OF FREEDOM
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHIELD OF FREEDOM: 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 SHIELD OF FREEDOM?
- SHIELD OF FREEDOM (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,381 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($150,000). 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 SHIELD OF FREEDOM have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $297,381 in grants to SHIELD OF FREEDOM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHIELD OF FREEDOM?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHIELD OF FREEDOM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 4 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