Citizens' Council for Health Freedom

What it reported doing in 2025

Educational efforts: hipaa as part of our "truth about hipaa initiative, cchf launched a campaign to expose the hipaa hoax, educating americans about the federal "privacy rule" that does not protect privacy, but permits broad sharing of medical data.speaking engagements - cchf's team gave nearly 20 presentations in 2025, including zoom presentations, speeches at various events in cchf's home state of Minnesota, South Dakota, New York, Virginia, and Florida and twice in California, including three presentations at freedomfest in palm springs. Topics included hipaa, health tech ecosystem, medicare traps, and real id.annual gala - dr. Lee merritt, md was the keynote speaker at cchf's annual fundraising gala. The event was packed as more than 400 guests heard her share personal and professional stories in defense of health freedom. The program also included an informative fireside chat interview with cchf's legislative and policy director.sharing news and perspectives - approximately 5,722 copies of our quarterly hardcopy newsletter to donors (health freedom watch) were mailed in 2025. Approximately 35,000 subscribers receive our weekly enews by email, a 53.91% increase from the previous year. Major interviews include the epoch times, post millennial, the tenpenny files (monthly), stand in the gap (monthly), crosspolitic, bret weinstein's dark horse podcast, infowars, blaze tv's conservative review, del bigtree's the highwire, the sarah westfall show, the jimmy dore show, american family news, furthermore with amanda head, financial issues (monthly) and ongoing interviews on financial rebellion. Over the year, there were a total of 130 interviews by news media, which is a 7.4% increase from 2024.website / social media engagement - the cchf website had 607,612 views. Our x account (formerly twitter) expanded from 1,496 followers to 2,334 followers. Instagram expanded from 215 followers to 647 followers. Our facebook account expanded from approximately 17,000 followers to approximately 60,000 followers, a 252.94% increase, and we launched a tiktok account on june 24th, which acquired 4,070 followers and 573,790 views by the end of 2025. Health freedom minutes (radio) - this one-of-a-kind national radio program shares one-minute nuggets of news and insights every weekday on 870 radio stations in 48 states using an ftp site. Our reach was also expanded through subscription to amb-os, which distributes for free about 95% of all the national christian teaching and talk programs to 1200 stations that can pick and choose programs at will.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 63.6%; rating input score 64
• Program expense ratio: 82.9%; rating input score 83
• Fundraising efficiency: $28.31 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Fail
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 25.5%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.58; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 14.3%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings