Alabama · Nonprofit
THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION
THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,169,433 to it, the largest being THE MALONE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($936,500). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $683k
What The Liberty Learning Foundation does
Mission
The Liberty Learning Foundation seeks individual and corpoate donations to provide authentic educational materials and tools that focus on character building, liberty, and civic responsibility to community schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Liberty Learning Foundation provides educators with program kits and other free educational tools to teach, inspire, and empower children at underfunded schools. The foundation also makes educational presentations in schools.
$1,410,510 spentof which $15,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,410,510.
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 2024 to 2025, from $464k to $817k (+76%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2018 12% · 2019 21% · 2020 29% · 2021 30% · 2022 34% · 2023 46% · 2024 56% · 2025 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Patti Yancey
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $134k → $320k.
6 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION’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
THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 46% · 2019 36% · 2020 50% · 2021 25% · 2022 45% · 2023 46% — 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
50% of THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
96% of THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $180k 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
THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE LIBERTY LEARNING 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 Alabama
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE LIBERTY LEARNING 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 THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION?
- THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,169,433 to it, the largest being THE MALONE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($936,500). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $2,169,433 in grants to THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION?
- THE MALONE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $936,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 30 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