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FRIENDS OF THE AKWESASNE FREEDOM SCHOOL INC

EIN 16-1451492 HOGANSBURG, NY

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Revenue 2024
$1,957,395
Expenses 2024
$542,739

Program services were 91.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B11
Classification
1200
Street
1628 STATE ROUTE 37

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

TO SUPPORT THE AKWESASNE FREEDOM SCHOOL. THE MISSION OF THE FRIENDS OF THE AKWESASNE FREEDOM SCHOOL IS TO ENSURE A PROSPEROUS FUTURE TO THE STUDENTS OF THE SCHOOL. THE ORGANIZATION'S SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES ARE TO RAISE FUNDS ON BEHALF OF THE AKWESASNE FREEDOM SCHOOL.

  • THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES FUNDS TO THE AKWESASNE FREEDOM SCHOOL FOR A TEACHERS TO PROVIDE A MOWHAWK CURRICULM FORM A NATIVE AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE. FUNDS ARE PROVIDED TO COVER TEACHERS SALARIES AT THE AKWESASNE FREEDOM SCHOOL. THE ORGANIZATION ALSO SUPPORTS A TEACHER-TRAINING PROGRAM. THE PARTICIPANTS ATTEND EACH CLASS WITH THE CHILDREN, AND KEEP DAILY JOURNALS OF ACTIVITIES AND INSIGHTS.

    Expenses $498,383 · Grants $336,655

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.

  • Alvera Sargent

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $42,665
    From this org
    $42,665
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Harris Cole

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sue Ellen Herne

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lori Lazore

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Richard Skidders

    VICE PRESIDE

    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
    $1,957,395
    Expenses
    $542,739
    Contributions
    $1,897,674
    Grants paid
    $336,655
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,195,929
    Expenses
    $680,880
    Contributions
    $3,144,961
    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

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $491,532
    Expenses
    $491,143
    Assets (EOY)
    $829,026

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $661,836
    Expenses
    $457,479
    Assets (EOY)
    $644,465

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $535,892
    Expenses
    $487,517
    Assets (EOY)
    $431,966

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $367,129
    Expenses
    $410,077
    Assets (EOY)
    $473,827

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $233,126
    Assets (EOY)
    $366,867

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $238,507
    Assets (EOY)
    $357,121

  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $268,369
    Assets (EOY)
    $346,273

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

  • AKWESASNE FREEDOM SCHOOL

    $336,655

    2024 GENERAL SUPPORT

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2020, reinstated 15 May 2020.

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.