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INSTITUTE FOR FREEDOMS INC

EIN 35-2667788 ALTADENA, CA

Revenue 2024
$2,236,962
Expenses 2024
$3,679,941

Program services were 70.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W24
Classification
1200
Street
2354 WINDSOR 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 ORGANIZATION SEEKS TO REIMAGINE FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT'S FOUR FREEDOMS IN THE 21ST CENTURY, USING ART AS A TOOL TO ENGAGE IN CRITICAL AND COMPLEX IDEAS, ENABLING CITIZENS TO HAVE A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM, AND ENGENDER DEEPER CIVIC PARTICIPATION. INSTITUTE FOR FREEDOMS WORKS WITH ARTISTS TO PRESENT NEW AND EXISTING WORK IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE, INCLUDING MUSEUMS, UNIVERSITIES,AND OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE INSTITUTE INTENDS TO PRESENT EXHIBITIONS OF VISUAL ART, CURATE PUBLIC PROGRAMS, AND COLLABORATE WITH MUSEUMS, ART NOT-PROFITS, AND CORPORATIONS OF ARTISTIC PROGRAMMING

  • THE ORGANIZATION SEEKS TO REIMAGINE FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT'S FOUR FREEDOMS IN THE 21ST CENTURY, USING ART AS A TOOL TO ENGAGE IN CRITICAL AND COMPLEX IDEAS, ENABLING CITIZENS TO HAVE A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM, AND ENGENDER DEEPER CIVIC PARTICIPATION. INSTITUTE FOR FREEDOMS WORKS WITH ARTISTS TO PRESENT NEW AND EXISTING WORK IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE, INCLUDING MUSEUMS, UNIVERSITIES, AND OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS. THE INSTITUTE INTENDS TO PRESENT EXHIBITIONS OF VISUAL ART, CURATE PUBLIC PROGRAMS, AND COLLABORATE WITH MUSEUMS, ARTS NONPROFITS, AND CORPORATIONS ON ARTISTIC PROGRAMMING. PRESENTLY, THE INSTITUTE IS COLLABORATING ON A NATIONWIDE PUBLIC ART PROJECT WITH CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS, CIVIC LEADERS, STUDENTS, AND ARTS PROFESSIONALS.

    Expenses $2,587,423 · Grants $311,428 · Revenue $403,902

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Claudia Pena

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $135,497
    From this org
    $133,817
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,680
    Hours/week
    40

  • Michelle Woo

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jamille Bigio

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rujeko Hockley

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Angelina Vontore

    SECRETARY

    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
    $2,236,962
    Expenses
    $3,679,941
    Contributions
    $1,833,050
    Grants paid
    $311,428
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,696,075
    Expenses
    $3,004,575
    Contributions
    $4,689,177
    Grants paid
    $377,385
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,084,128
    Expenses
    $3,687,300
    Contributions
    $2,895,468
    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
    $1,611,057
    Expenses
    $149,687
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,464,699

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Hank Willis Thomas
Mailing address
2 Washington Square VLG PHHNew York NY 10012

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

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

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.