Freedom City Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 384115984
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Oklahoma City, OK, USA
- Phone
- 4056558763
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $339,237
- Expenses
- $371,162
- Assets
- $256,452
- Liabilities
- $147,235
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JUDY REYES-HENDERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- ROBB HARPER (MEMBER)
- TAYLOR SMITH (MEMBER)
- TAYLOR DOE (MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide equitable access to quality educational opportunities for students in need within the public school system of central Oklahoma. Clients tend to be as much as 3 years behind in math reading achievement, represent racial minorities, come from financially disadvantaged families have experienced trauma.
What it reported doing in 2025
In partnership with local schools and community organizations, the After-School Program servesstudents in Pre-K through 8th grade, helping them strengthen their reading, math, and writingskills. Through project-based learning, students engage in hands-on activities that make learningfun while introducing them to diverse career paths and extracurricular opportunities. During thereporting period, the program served 117 students and engaged 10 community volunteers as dedicatedtutors. All students 100 participated in multiple academic and enrichment activities each week, fostering both academic growth and personal development. The program maintained an impressiveaverage attendance rate of 92, reflecting strong student interest and consistent engagement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 64% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.2%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 74.5%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th 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 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.4%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.57; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 43.6% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.2% of revenue deployed · 74.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $276K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.