Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$5,440,544

Total expenses

$6,504,865

Contributions and grants received

$5,388,916

Grants paid

$86,282

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$14,872

Other revenue

$36,756

Total assets, end of year

$5,238,931

Total liabilities, end of year

$47,367

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$5,191,564

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$6,036,444

Management and general expenses

$420,973

Fundraising expenses

$47,448

Program service expenses (Part III)

$6,036,444

Program services were 92.8% 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.

Mission and programs · 2023

• Burma Ministries - In 2023, Free the Oppressed teams supported Free Burma Rangers teams that are made up of many ethnicities in Burma. We had the opportunity to visit many communities under threat of attack as well as those displaced and living in hiding sites away from their villages in both Karen and Karenni States of Burma. The Burma Army attacks clinics, hospitals, and schools causing them to relocate to obscure places without infrastructure to function normally. We supported and visited many medics working out of caves, under make-shift tents, and in wooded ravines still providing life-saving care while taking painstaking precautions to be camouflaged from aircraft and drone visibility. We supported and visited many schools displaced from their buildings and compounds, using blackboards propped against rocks as students studied in the safety of a wooded creek bed. Other school compounds have newly dug trenches surrounding the classrooms for immediate refuge when attack jets drop bombs on them. Continued on note in Additional Information section....

  Expenses $4,236,440 · Grants $86,282

• Middle East Ministries - We are pleased to share our collective achievements from this past year. Each of these projects has had a meaningful impact on the lives of families, children, and communities who have suffered greatly. Here is a breakdown of our efforts, underscored by our commitment to humanitarian and spiritual support in these regions. Iraq & Kurdistan Efforts: Medical Assistance for Peshmerga Families: We provided medical support to 15 Peshmerga families, standing by those who have sacrificed for the security of Kurdistan. This care was vital for the health and resilience of families who rely on these defenders. Continued on note in Additional Information section....

  Expenses $897,146

• Thailand Ministries: In Thailand, Free the Oppressed has supported numerous individuals and villages throughout the year 2023. FTO sponsored two students for university programs in nursing and food sciences. Eighty students, lodging in three different hostels in Thailand, have been provided with education, food, and housing and have heard the Gospel message through various FTO programs. Thai Karen Baptist Church hostel houses forty-one students. The Wa Hostel houses eighteen students. The Karen Sunshine home houses twenty-one students. Another outreach in Thailand for FTO is patient care. Fiscal year 2023 saw thirty-nine patients brought to Thailand for care, with an average stay of three months and the longest being ten years for one patient. One of the younger patients is enrolled in a Thai school while receiving long-term medical care. Patient care pays for all medical, food, lodging, transportation, and other miscellaneous costs the patients might incur. Continued on note in Additional Information section....

  Expenses $694,181

• Advocacy

  Expenses $208,677

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• The Fund For Liberty and Justice

  $12,000

  Grant to help people in Ukraine

• Bonus Years Inc

  $8,408

  Ministry to disabled individuals

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

13 November 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

202413209349319296

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