Freedom House Ministries, Inc.

Legal name: Freedom House Ministries Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
391721843
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Green Bay, WI, US
Phone
920-432-4646
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Housing, Shelter N.E.C.
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,647,162
Expenses
$1,681,796
Assets
$6,824,714
Liabilities
$80,186

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JEN SCHMOHE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • JEN SCHMOHE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $84,203 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Freedom House Ministries provides shelter and resources for families experiencing homelessness in Green Bay, including housing navigation to support stability and independence. In this challenging world, families are grappling with homelessness and an affordable housing crisis. Your support is vital to providing families with critical shelter and resources, enriching lives and healing their souls. By contributing to our mission, you’re offering safety, a warm meal and a path to independence. Two guys unloading a vehicle at homeless shelter. Providing Shelter and Supportive Services **When Families Need It Most The cost of rent and unexpected life events are the two most common reasons families become homeless and seek shelter at Freedom House. At our location on the east side of Green Bay, Freedom House help families achieve independence by offering:.

What it reported doing in 2025

Freedom house ministries provides shelter to those families experiencing homelessness for up to 6 months. The shelter has a total of 16 rooms, with private bath and sleeps up to six people per room. The organization offers success coaching, housing navigation, and referrals to community resources to sustain the family beyond their shelter stay. The coaching models promotes economic mobility through employment attachment, personal finance wellness, self care and housing attachment. Freedom house ministries also owns and operates a 9 unit apartment building as a landlord, with a property called the bridge, located on the west side of green bay. This apartment building leases to both subsidized and market rate tenant arrangements. The goal of this supportive environment aims to stabilize the family by fostering relationships, providing coaching and support resources to help families avoid lapses into homelessness.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 79% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 55
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 64.4%; rating input score 64
  • Program expense ratio: 52.9%; rating input score 53
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

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: 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2.1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.06; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 64.4% of revenue deployed · 52.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $890K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $84K · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.