Collective Freedom
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993627538
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Oceanside, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4423755752
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Prison Alternatives
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $58,892
- Expenses
- $61,572
- Assets
- $46,812
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ashley Gerdo (President)
People named in this filing
- Ashley Gerdo (President)
- Alketa Wojcik (Treasurer)
- Tin Nguyen (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Collective Freedom supports justice-impacted individuals in its mission to provide compassionate and holistic support. We serve this community through a collective and community-based model with tools and resources necessary to navigate the impact of incarceration.
What it reported doing in 2025
During the reporting year, Collective Freedom carried out its purpose by providing education, advocacy support, and community-based assistance to justice-impacted individuals and families navigating systems of incarceration, detention, and deportation. These activities directly fulfill Collective Freedoms mission by reducing harm and providing dignity to justice-impacted immigrant communities, increasing access to accurate information and legal resources, and empowering affected individuals and families to navigate systems that disproportionately impact refugees and formerly incarcerated people. Program activities included: Providing know-your-rights education on the intersection of the criminal legal system and immigration law, including detention processes, removal procedures, post-conviction consequences, and legal relief options such as immigration waivers and post conviction relief. Offering individualized support and referrals to impacted individuals and their families, including connection to legal service providers and assistance understanding the impact of criminal convictions on those with non-citizenship status including legal relief options, ICE detention and travel-document procedures, deportation processes and immigration proceedings, and navigating prolonged detention. Producing and disseminating community education materials written resources, briefings, and workshops that explain complex immigration policies in culturally and linguistically accessible ways. Engaging in advocacy support and documentation, including collecting community data, preparing legal declarations and background materials used by attorneys and advocates, and supporting efforts to ensure humane treatment and due process for detained individuals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.6%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 168% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $62K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.