Freedom for All Americans Education Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474166556
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2026010187
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $192
- Expenses
- $260,866
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRANDIE BALKEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JACOB MCCLAIN (CHIEF FISCAL OFFICER): $30,000 total reported compensation
- BRANDIE BALKEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $6,625 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The freedom for all americans education fund is dedicated to increasing public awareness around the urgent need for full nondiscrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people nationwide. Our work brings together conservatives, business leaders, people of faith, and allies from all walks of life to develop strategies, trainings, and public education resources needed to change the public narrative and create a climate where everyone is treated fairly and equally.
What it reported doing in 2023
Freedom for all americans is the bipartisan campaign to secure full nondiscrimination protections for lgbtq people nationwide. Our work brings together republicans and democrats, businesses large and small, people of faith, and allies from all walks of life to make the case for comprehensive non-discrimination protections that ensure everyone is treated fairly and equally. With the ultimate goal of securing federal statutory protections for lgbtq americans, freedom for all americans works at the federal, state, and local level to advance measures and laws protecting from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression - without allowing overly broad and harmful religious exemptions that will encourage employers, business owners or others to choose to disregard those protections. Opponents of non-discrimination laws are currently pursuing strategies to chip away at protections for the lgbtq community and undermine the movement's gains. We will push against these attempts to codify discrimination. However, it is not enough to merely take a defensive posture - we must take the fight on the offensive, with a multi-year initiative that seizes on our best opportunities to advance local and state-level victories. Throughout all of this work, we must also pursue a broad, ambitious initiative to educate americans about who lgbtq people are and why non-discrimination protections are so critical. By building momentum across the country with state-level victories and comprehensive public education campaigns, we will create pressure nationally for the united states congress to pass full federal protections for all lgbtq people.in november 2022, after assessing congressional opportunity to move federal policy, the freedom for all americans education fund board of directors voted to dissolve the organization and disseminate all pertinent remaining assets to partner organizations continuing the work to secure lqbtq non-discrimination protections.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 74% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 69% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 3
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 27.9%; rating input score 28
- 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; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -135,767.7%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 14%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 27.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $73K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $30K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.