NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A540

Classification

1000

Street

50 E FREEDOM WAY

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

• END SLAVERY NOW

  EIN 27-1448321

Mission and programs · 2024

• MUSEUM OPERATION: TO PROVIDE A POSITIVE CONDUIT FOR THE PUBLIC DISSEMINATION ON THE IMPACT OF SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING WITHIN THE UNITED STATES. THIS IS ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH THE EFFECTIVE USE OF HIGH-TECH INTERACTIVE PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS, ROTATING TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS, AND A COLLECTION OF OWNED AND BORROWED ARTIFACTS, INCLUDING AN AUTHENTIC 19TH CENTURY SLAVE PEN FROM MASON COUNTY, KENTUCKY. THE MUSEUM ALSO FEATURES A FULL SERVICE GENEALOGICAL LIBRARY, A GIFT SHOP OFFERING FAIR-TRADE INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC GOODS, A TEACHER RESOURCE AND EDUCATION CENTER, AND MULTI-PURPOSE CLASSROOM SPACE.

  Expenses $2,935,332 · Grants $37,000 · Revenue $907,006

• EDUCATION: TO EDUCATE SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN (K-12), INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING, AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD AND LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD THROUGH GUIDED TOURS, TEACHER WORKSHOPS, EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH PROGRAMS, SCHOLARLY LECTURES, PUBLIC FORUMS, FIRST-PERSON RE-ENACTMENTS, AND DIGITAL/DISTANCE LEARNING INITIATIVES, INCLUDING PRODUCING AND DISTRIBUTING DIGITAL CONTENT NATIONWIDE.

  Expenses $1,490,962 · Revenue $156,877

• COMMUNITY: TO FORM PARTNERSHIPS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY WITH LIKE PURPOSE ENTITIES AND TO HOST COMMUNITY FORUMS AND PARTNER PROGRAMS THAT WILL BENEFIT OUR CONSTITUENTS AND FURTHER THE MISSION OF THE FREEDOM CENTER. PARTNERSHIPS WITH FOR-PROFIT AND NON-PROFIT ENTITIES ENABLE THE FREEDOM CENTER TO EXPAND THE RESOURCES AND THE REACH OF ITS PURPOSE, INCLUDING THE AWARENESS OF THE SIX CONTEMPORARY UNFREEDOMS: RACISM, ILLITERACY, GENOCIDE, HUNGER, TYRANNY, AND SLAVERY.

  Expenses $232,962

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.

The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $7,881,954

  Expenses

  $7,341,870

  Contributions

  $6,559,278

  Grants paid

  $37,000

• 2023

  Revenue

  $4,523,107

  Expenses

  $7,371,913

  Contributions

  $2,021,831

  Grants paid

  $1,000

• 2022

  Revenue

  $7,986,242

  Expenses

  $7,006,594

  Contributions

  $6,209,081

  Grants paid

  $20,813

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

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,992,770

  Expenses

  $6,574,195

  Assets (EOY)

  $30,364,054

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,231,725

  Expenses

  $4,685,129

  Assets (EOY)

  $30,820,781

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,996,041

  Expenses

  $5,062,520

  Assets (EOY)

  $29,208,904

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,648,128

  Expenses

  $5,117,302

  Assets (EOY)

  $30,831,854

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,635,464

  Expenses

  $5,849,879

  Assets (EOY)

  $31,974,746

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• CINCINNATI MUSEUM FOUNDATIONS

  $37,000

  2024 · UNRESTRICTED GRANT

• CINCINNATI MUSEUMS FOUNDATION

  $20,813

  2022 · ENDOWMENT GIFT TRANSFER

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION

  $1,439,770

  2024 · PROGRAMATIC SUPPORT

• GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION

  $620,760

  2023 · PROGRAMATIC SUPPORT

• GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION

  $617,746

  2022 · GENERAL PURPOSE

• CINCINNATI MUSEUMS FOUNDATION

  $434,088

  2022 · UNRESTRICTED GRANT

• TIDES FOUNDATION

  $150,000

  2022 · HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $42,675

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $32,000

  2023 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $26,000

  2024 · CULTURE & ARTS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $16,225

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA

  $12,752

  2024 · CHARITABLE DONATION

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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