Free at Last Properties

Analysis

Free at Last Properties is a registered charity in United States, based in E Palo Alto, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2025. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. 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 June 2021, Free at Last Properties reported income of $179k and spending of $97k, leaving 46% of income unspent that year. Across the 3 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2021, income fell from $370k to $179k (-52%), an average of -30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income dropped by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 32% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Free at Last Properties sits at the 48th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 53rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Allegheny Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods-Housing Incorporated ($179k), Newberg Rotary Foundation ($179k) and Oakland Transportation Management Association ($179k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2021, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $23k. At year end it held assets of $2.4m against liabilities of $1.6m, net assets of $734k.