Freedom to Choose Project

Analysis

Freedom to Choose Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Barbara, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Freedom to Choose Project reported income of $751k and spending of $650k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $460k to $751k (+63%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 79%. Over the whole period it spent 78% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Freedom to Choose Project sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cotta-Brown Group Home ($751k), Chicago Community Bond Fund ($752k) and Family Policy Institute of Washington ($751k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $407k. It paid $199 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $239k, net assets of $813k. It reported 4 employees.