Ohio · Nonprofit
True Freedom Enterprises
True Freedom Enterprises (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $427,029 to it, the largest being JEROME T OSBORNE AND GEORGEANNE S OSBORNE CHARITABLE TRUST ($85,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $458k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $427k
- Net assets
- $431k
What True Freedom Enterprises does
Mission
Prospera Reentry and Transportation exists to revolutionize prisoner reentry in America by reducing recidivism through specializing in:Pre-release prisoner workforce readiness trainingPre-release work release programmingPost-release trade-school training
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
True Freedom Enterprises facilitates a pre-release workforce empowerment program designed to address the staggering 70% unemployment rate returning citizens face upon release from prison. This innovative initiative allows incarcerated individuals, during their last 90 days in prison, to participate in an externship with private companies that enables them to receive: Real-world work experience Transferrable skills Monthly evaluations Employer referrals Re-entry resources The goal of the program is to help returning citizens gain stable employment, which is proven to reduce recidivism. True Freedom has partnered with Ashland University to provide employment skills-based certificates and accredited associates and bachelors degree programming to individuals recently released from prison. Through this unique collaboration, Ashland University has agreed to waive all tuition costs and fees above the Pell Grant, so that True Freedom students receive this free.
$421,944 spent100% of program spendingProspera Transportations transports Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections prisoners from Ohio prisons to work release jobs around Ohio and then transports the prisoners back to the prison at the end of there shifts. We also transport recently released prisoners from halfway houses to their job sites and then return them. We are solving the employment paradox (you can find a job unless you have transportation, and you cannot afford transportation without a job. We provide transportation services free-of-charges to these underserved populations.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $421,944.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $841k to $559k (−34%).
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: 2020 10% · 2021 7% · 2022 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of True Freedom Enterprises’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Kevin McHugh
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $30k → $103k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $40k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest True Freedom Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money True Freedom Enterprises raised.
From the IRS filings of True Freedom Enterprises’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
True Freedom Enterprises has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 67% · 2019 59% · 2020 57% · 2021 67% · 2022 44% · 2023 48% — 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
43% of True Freedom Enterprises's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
97% of True Freedom Enterprises's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
True Freedom Enterprises's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,127 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like True Freedom Enterprises
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 True Freedom Enterprises: 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 True Freedom Enterprises?
- True Freedom Enterprises (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $427,029 to it, the largest being JEROME T OSBORNE AND GEORGEANNE S OSBORNE CHARITABLE TRUST ($85,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does True Freedom Enterprises have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $427,029 in grants to True Freedom Enterprises, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of True Freedom Enterprises?
- JEROME T OSBORNE AND GEORGEANNE S OSBORNE CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like True Freedom Enterprises 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 15 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