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LIBERTY INITIATIVE FUND

EIN 45-4101488 FAIRFAX, VA

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Revenue 2024
$3,948,244
Expenses 2024
$3,824,685

Program services were 98.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Street
11166 FAIRFAX BLVD STE 500 1023

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

LIBERTY INITIATIVE FUND PROMOTES GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND PROTECTS PERSONAL AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM PRIMARILY BY ADVOCATING FOR CITIZEN INITIATIVES AND OTHER BALLOT MEASURES THAT SUPPORT LIBERTY AND OPPOSING THOSE BALLOT MEASURES THAT REDUCE LIBERTY AND GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTABILITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO RALLY AMERICANS TO RESTORE GREATER CITIZEN CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT BY ASSISTING CITIZENS IN TAKING THE INITIATIVE OR REFERENDUM OR RECALL PROCESS TO INCREASE OUR LIBERTY ESPECIALLY BY PLACING MEASURES ON STATE AND LOCAL BALLOTS.

  • IN 2023, LIBERTY INITIATIVE FUND WORKED WITH AN ARIZONA POLITICAL COMMITTEE TO ACTIVATE SUPPORT FOR TWO BALLOT MEASURES - BACK THE BLUE AND KIDS ARE NOT FOR SALE - WHICH THE LEGISLATURE PLACED ON THE 2024 BALLOT AS PROPOSITIONS 311 AND 313.LIBERTY INITIATIVE FUND ALSO WORKED WITH CITIZEN-ONLY VOTING ACTIVISTS AND STATE LEGISLATORS TO PROMOTE CITIZEN ONLY VOTING AMENDMENTS IN THE FOLLOWING 14 STATES: ARKANSAS, IDAHO, IOWA, KANSAS, KENTUCKY, MISSOURI, NEW YORK, NORTH CAROLINA, OKLAHOMA, SOUTH CAROLINA, SOUTH DAKOTA, TEXAS, WEST VIRGINIA AND WISCONSIN.ADDITIONALLY, LIBERTY INITIATIVE FUND CONTRIBUTED OVER $50,000 AND CONSIDERABLE ADVICE AND COUNSEL TO THE 2023 PETITION DRIVE THAT PLACED A CONGRESSIONAL AGE LIMIT MEASURE ON THE 2024 NORTH DAKOTA BALLOT.

    Expenses $3,776,101 · Grants $452,989

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.

  • Paul Jacob

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $221,650
    From this org
    $126,000
    From related orgs
    $54,000
    Other
    $41,650
    Hours/week
    20 + 35 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $126,000 + $54,000 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,300 + $2,770 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,806 + $9,774 related
    Filer's total
    $155,106 + $66,544 related

  • Frank Gilbert

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 5 related

  • Michelle Esentan

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 5 related

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
    $3,948,244
    Expenses
    $3,824,685
    Contributions
    $3,867,446
    Grants paid
    $452,989
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,086,123
    Expenses
    $1,830,414
    Contributions
    $3,086,123
    Grants paid
    $85,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,267,074
    Expenses
    $5,209,973
    Contributions
    $2,267,074
    Grants paid
    $1,768,500

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
    $3,241,019
    Expenses
    $2,141,525
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,339,095

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $901,868
    Expenses
    $812,960
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,165,161

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $281,330
    Expenses
    $21,321
    Assets (EOY)
    $680,050

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $486,854
    Expenses
    $219,330
    Assets (EOY)
    $420,041

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $32,695
    Expenses
    $210,636
    Assets (EOY)
    $155,019

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $666,000
    Expenses
    $542,865
    Assets (EOY)
    $330,458

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,091,500
    Expenses
    $979,760
    Assets (EOY)
    $242,357

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

  • PROTECT MI VOTER ID

    $855,000

    2022 ADVOCACY

  • MICHIGAN GUARDIANS OF DEMOCRACY

    $600,000

    2022 ADVOCACY

  • A PUBLIC VOICE

    $300,000

    2024 ADVOCACY

  • SECURE MI VOTE

    $192,000

    2022 ADVOCACY

  • BACK THE BLUE

    $125,000

    2024 ADVOCAY

  • PINE TREE PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE

    $97,500

    2022 ADVOCACY

  • KEEPING AMERICA STRONG PAC

    $55,000

    2023 ADVOCACY

  • US TERM LIMITS

    $25,000

    2024 ADVOCACY

  • AMERICANS FOR CITIZENS VOTING

    $20,000

    2022 ADVOCACY

  • AMERICANS FOR CITIZEN VOTING

    $10,000

    2023 ADVOCACY

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

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Grants received

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.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.