ARIZONA FREEDOM FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1000

Street

835 W WARNER RD STE 101 PMB 439

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• Independent News: The organization managed its website, azfreenews.com, which is made available free of charge. Website traffic exceeded 750,000 page views for the year. Free newsletter subscriptions also maintained at more than 18,000 subscribers. The content of the website is generated by freelance journalists and promoted primarily through social media channels, free email newsletters, and search engines.

  Expenses $153,939

• Investigative Journalism: The organization contracted with five freelance journalists during the year. These journalists wrote 914 original news stories on a wide array of topics related to Arizonamany of which often elude attention from mainstream commercial media outlets. In these stories, readers are provided with the pertinent facts to help them form their own opinions and conclusions.

  Expenses $117,000

• Research: The organization contracts with a Researcher on an ongoing basis. This person is responsible for initiating public records requests and doing other necessary research as needed for the journalists to ensure that they have the proper facts and documents. By performing these duties, the Researcher helps the journalists to be more efficient and focus on telling the stories that the people of Arizona need to hear. In 2025, the Researcher filed multiple public records requests to assist with these stories and assisted with research on dozens of stories and investigative pieces.

  Expenses $12,000

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $328,840

  Expenses

  $321,910

  Contributions

  $328,840

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $263,735

  Expenses

  $322,802

  Contributions

  $263,735

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $294,939

  Expenses

  $316,420

  Contributions

  $294,939

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $157,031

  Expenses

  $99,829

  Assets (EOY)

  $61,338

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• AZ LIBERTY NETWORK

  $200,000

  2024 · PUBLIC EDUCATION

• NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $10,000

  2024 · MEDIA AND PUBLISHING

• NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $10,000

  2023 · CULTURE

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