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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by FSI-FREEDOM SEEKERS INTERNATIONAL.

This return was superseded by a later amendment. matched by us It is kept because history is preserved rather than replaced.

What the amendment changed

Compared with the latest return for 2024 , filed 17 November 2025. matched by us Only the return's totals, a 990-PF's accounting method and the names listed in Part VII (Part VIII on a 990-PF) are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.

Total revenue
$160,495 changed to $346,849
Total expenses
$212,131 changed to $360,109
Contributions and grants received
$160,495 changed to $345,027
Grants paid
$0 changed to $165,903
Program service revenue
$0 changed to $500
Investment income
$0 changed to $12
Other revenue
$0 changed to $1,310
Total assets, end of year
$14,437 changed to $2,446
Total liabilities, end of year
$23,165 changed to $19,311
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
-$8,728 changed to -$16,865
Program services expenses
$190,248 changed to $253,631
Management and general expenses
$21,883 changed to $81,678
Fundraising expenses
$0 changed to $24,800
Program service expenses (Part III)
$190,248 changed to $253,631

Listed only on the earlier return

  • Gary Halbrook
  • Melissa Brisco
  • Peggy Tucker

Listed only on the later return

  • Gary Holcomb
  • Jim Justice
  • Peggy Yeiser

Listed under a different title

  • Deana Brown: CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER then CEO
  • Mike Jackson: BOARD CHAIRMAN then CHAIRMAN OF
  • Sunny Lowe: EMERITUS then BOARD MEMBER

Totals

Total revenue
$160,495
Total expenses
$212,131
Contributions and grants received
$160,495
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$14,437
Total liabilities, end of year
$23,165
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
-$8,728
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$190,248
Management and general expenses
$21,883
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$190,248

Program services were 89.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $160,495

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $35,270 · program services $23,994 · management and general $11,276

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $5,790 · program services $3,000 · management and general $2,790

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $2,698 · program services $1,774 · management and general $924

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $4,424 · program services $4,424

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $18,144 · program services $18,144

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $435 · program services $435

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $1,193 · program services $1,193

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $15 · program services $15

  • 17 · Travel

    total $9,172 · program services $9,172

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $1,041 · program services $268 · management and general $773

  • 24a · Other expenses: REFUGEE ASSISTANCE

    total $61,487 · program services $61,487

  • 24b · Other expenses: MAYFLOWER MISSION

    total $58,043 · program services $58,043

  • 24c · Other expenses: CONTRACT WAGES

    total $9,016 · program services $2,896 · management and general $6,120

  • 24d · Other expenses: BANK CHARGES

    total $1,311 · program services $1,311

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $4,092 · program services $4,092

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $56,842 · end of year $14,226

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $953 · end of year $211

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $14,887 · end of year $23,165

  • 29 · Capital stock, trust principal or current funds

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 30 · Paid-in or capital surplus, or land, building or equipment fund

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $42,908 · end of year -$8,728

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

FREEDOM SEEKERS INTERNATIONAL EXISTS TO RESCUE "LAST RESORT AND THE MOST SEVERELY PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS IN HOSTILE AND RESTRICTIVE COUNTRIES. THROUGH METHODS OF RESETTLEMENT, WE SAVE THEIR VOICES, ALLOWING THE GOSPEL TO CONTINUE THROUGH THEIR LIVES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

ASSISTING REFUGEES

  • WE HELP "LAST RESORT" PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS (FROM CHINA, ERITREA, SYRIA, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, ETC.) ESCAPE AND THEN HELP THEM TO LEGALLY RESETTLE TO CANADA, THE US, BRAZIL, ETC. DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 2024, WE CONTINUED WORKING WITH A CHINESE GROUP CALLED THE MAYFLOWER CHURCH. THERE ARE 66 PEOPLE IN THAT GROUP, INCLUDING 2 NEW BABIES BORN IN 2024. WE ALSO BEGAN WORKING WITH THE US IMMIGRATION WELCOME CORPS PROGRAM AND THE CANADIAN IMMIGRATION PROGRAM HELPING AN ADDITIONAL 140 PEOPLE.

    Expenses $190,248 · Revenue $160,495

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Deana Brown

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Gary Halbrook

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peggy Tucker

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Melissa Brisco

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mike Jackson

    BOARD CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Becky Bigbie

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sunny Lowe

    EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
22 February 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.0
Source object
202510639349300816

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