Wyoming FREE

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
922229947
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Buffalo, WY, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Voter Education, Registration

Reported finances

Expenses
$193,840
Assets
$24,354

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Dan Zwonitzer (President)
  • Rede Ballard (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Maren Nicolyasen (Treasurer)
  • Dan Zwonitzer (President)
  • Rede Ballard (Vice President)

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

We are a nonprofit organization committed to strengthening civic awareness and public understanding of elections government processes and policy issues across Wyoming. Our work is grounded in the belief that an informed citizenry strengthens our state our communities and our republic. Consistent with the requirements of Section 501c4 our programs are nonpartisan and focused on public education civic engagement and lawful advocacy around access and transparency in government.

What it reported doing in 2025

During the reporting period WyomingFREE provided civic education public information and legislative tracking related to Wyoming elections voter participation government transparency and civic engagement. The organization maintained a public website that received approximately 2,500 visitors published approximately 50 social media posts that generated approximately 23,000 views helped develop educational opinion pieces and public commentary tracked 43 pieces of legislation and provided information to citizens and stakeholders about Wyoming election and governance issues. These activities supported greater public understanding of Wyomings civic processes and encouraged informed participation in public decision-making.

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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 38
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 17
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 76.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -23.7% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $196K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 3 of 4 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.