Freedom Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800684337
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Minnetonka, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6125648393
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $714,528
- Expenses
- $662,299
- Assets
- $220,607
- Liabilities
- $2,132
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RYAN WILSON (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ALEX KHARAM (EXECUTIVE DI): $106,667 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Educate Minnesota voters about issues and candidates.
What it reported doing in 2024
The freedom club, through meetings, earned media, paid media, and other forms of communications, actively works to promote conservative ideals and free market principles to make Minnesota a better place to live, work, and raise a family. Public education of conservative issues and values: freedom club aims to restore just and limited government to Minnesota. Freedom club believes in educating its members, civic leaders, and the general public in the principles of liberty. Freedom club will actively work to promote conservative ideals to make Minnesota a better place to live, work, and raise a family. This activity will take place year-round via promotion through town hall meetings, television advertisements, radio advertisements, direct mail, internet communications, and other forms of commonly used media. This activity further promotes our exempt purpose of promoting social welfare by educating the public on fiscal and social issues of importance. This activity was conducted throughout Minnesota by volunteers, employees, and paid consultants of the organization. Social gatherings and club meetings: freedom club meet monthly to discuss and educate attendees about the principles of liberty and conservative ideals. Freedom club will also hold periodic social gatherings available to the public to promote these same ideals. The activity furthers our exempt purpose of promoting social welfare by educating the public and civic leaders on fiscal and social issues of importance. This activity was conducted in Minnesota by volunteers, employees, and paid consultants of the organization. Lobbying: during the Minnesota legislative session (january-may), it will be important for freedom club to maintain presence at the capitol. Freedom club may hire a lobbyist to influence the legislative agenda and to promote freedom clubs conservative ideals and principles of liberty. This activity furthers our exempt purpose of promoting social welfare by encouraging policy makers to discuss fiscal and social issues of importance. This activity was conducted in Minnesota by the executive director of freedom club with assistance from paid lobbyists. In 2022 freedom club educated over 100,000 voters on important issues and connected tens of thousands of residents to elected officials.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 63% for direct work, and 37% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.8%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 90.4%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.3%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.1%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.8% of revenue deployed · 90.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $599K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $107K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.