Outdoor Freedom Network
Legal name: Outdoor Freedom Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464327031
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Broaddus, TX, USA
- Phone
- (936) 240-5300
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $175,075
- Expenses
- $137,959
- Assets
- $346,466
- Liabilities
- $132,231
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TERRY SYMPSON (President)
People named in this filing
- TERRY SYMPSON (President)
- CONNIE SYMPSON (Treasurer)
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
Outdoor Freedom Network (OFN) has two primary missions – veterans and children in need of outdoor access as well as activities that support community and social good.
What it reported doing in 2025
Deep east Texas high school fishing seriesthe Texas fallen heroes high school fishing championshiptoys for tots campaign
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 14
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 13.2%; rating input score 13
- Program expense ratio: 16.8%; rating input score 17
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.2%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.51; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 46.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 13.2% of revenue deployed · 16.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 13/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.