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THE FREEDOM CENTER OF OKC LLC

EIN 84-2331810 OKLAHOMA CITY, OK

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Revenue 2024
$416,567
Expenses 2024
$412,233

Program services were 55.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
2609 N MARTIN LUTHER KING AVE

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 · 2024

Mission

The Freedom Center of OKC, LLC endeavors to educate, empower and enlighten our nation to reflect on the past, present, and future of the Civil Rights Movement in Oklahoma, and to develop facilities and programs to effect the mission of the organization

  • On December 10, 2019, the citizens of Oklahoma City voted to pass MAPS 4, including $25 million for the restoration of the Freedom Center building and the creation of a new Clara Luper Civil Rights Center.This five-acre campus will be constructed immediately adjacent to the historic building, transforming the city, state and nation's knowledge of our civil rights history and positively influencing the future of northeast Oklahoma City and our entire community. With exhibition and programming areas, a caf, welcoming center, outdoor and events spaces, this new campus will be an educational and community gathering place that honors the past, enlightens visitors today and empowers the next generation of leadership.Since the passage of MAPS 4, the Freedom Center board of directors has successfully raised private funds to restore the historic building. Removing the Freedom Center restoration from the MAPS 4 scope of work and paying for it with private funds allows us to get started sooner and retain ownership of the building. Our architectural team has grown to include Atelier Cory Henry as lead designer for the restoration, in partnership with Bockus Payne Architecture as the architect of record. Thunder Team Construction has been hired as our construction manager. Work is anticipated to begin in early 2022 and be completed by Fall 2022.

    Expenses $228,571 · Grants $398,587

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Leonard Benton

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Joyce A Henderson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joyce Jackson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rev Lee E Cooper Jr

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Marilyn Luper-Hildreth

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rev John A Reed

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Garland Pruitt Jr

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Calvin Whittaker

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Gwenda Roberts

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Duplissis

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lelia Reed

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ledelia Jimerson

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Aletia Timmons

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Cecelia Robinson Woods

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Heather Ahtone

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dianna Berry

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Karlos K Hill

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Robert J Ross

    BOARD MEMBER

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $416,567
    Expenses
    $412,233
    Contributions
    $398,587
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $295,916
    Expenses
    $314,194
    Contributions
    $286,231
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $594,528
    Expenses
    $140,015
    Contributions
    $592,830
    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

    Revenue
    $594,021
    Expenses
    $147,017
    Assets (EOY)
    $619,451

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.