Free2luv Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454158223
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2063974724
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $187,199
- Expenses
- $177,346
- Assets
- $92,257
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tonya Sandis (Co-Founder and President)
People named in this filing
- Tonya Sandis (Co-Founder and President)
- Araya Casey (Director of Programming and LGBTQ+ Outreach)
- Bowie Starr (Partnership building and LGBTQ+ outreach team)
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
Free2Luv is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering, uplifting, and saving the lives of youth through the arts. Through music, art, film, theater, dance, storytelling, and social media - the languages of youth - we're raising awareness, starting conversations, and healing minds and hearts.
What it reported doing in 2025
EXPRESS IT!: A national mental health art empowerment program servicing approx 15,000 under-resourced and marginalized youth. The program combines interactive, guided workshops, a creative expression activity book, and community art murals. Through art and inclusive, open conversations around topical issues, we empower, uplift, and engage youth to be their best selves.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 95%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.3%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90% of revenue deployed · 95% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $168K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- 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 45/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.