- Revenue 2023
- $177,473
- Expenses 2023
- $253,819
Program services were 88.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- P58
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 320 S STATE HIGHWAY 121 N STE 208
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).
Group exemption
A subordinate covered by the group exemption of DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM (EIN 20-1795631). matched by us
The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.
Mission and programs · 2023
Mission
To support deployed troops, provide emergency financial assistance and aid to veterans, help with job searches, facilitate morale supporting activities, and assist in the general transition to civilian life.
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Defenders of Freedom paid emergency assistance for housing homeless, paying rents/mortgages to keep Veterans from becoming homeless, utiliities, car payments, insurance, repairs, and miscellaneous items.
Expenses $149,425 · Grants $530
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Alternative brain treatment for combat Veterans with traumatic brain injuries, free of charge to the Veterans. They go to a clinic in Colorado for a two week intensive therapy.
Expenses $53,999
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Morale Support for Veterans includes Veterans joining in activities for support with each other. Golfing and shooting are our two biggest activities we provide to Veterans to connect with one another.
Expenses $19,916
As filed on the 2023 return.
Officers and directors · 2023
As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Bryan Watson
President - Pittsburgh
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Robert J Casey II
V/P - Pittsburgh
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Ryan Hatch
V/P - Pittsburgh
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
James Fawcett
V/P - Pittsburgh
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Aaron Melius
Secretary - Pittsburgh
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Adam Whitaker
Treasurer - Pittsburgh
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Donna Cranston
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Brian Hughes
President - Kansas City
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 15
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Brandi Hughes
Sec/Treas - Kansas City
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
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Chris Blom
Vice President - Kansas City
- Total calculated
- $0
-
Jamie Wells
President - Florida
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
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Rob Vickers
Director - Florida
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Martin Angulo
Director - Florida
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Michelle Caldwell
Director - Florida
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Travis Schefcik
Director - Florida
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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
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2023
- Revenue
- $177,473
- Expenses
- $253,819
- Contributions
- $223,579
- Grants paid
- $530
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2022
- Revenue
- $214,017
- Expenses
- $137,931
- Contributions
- $280,210
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $140,200
- Expenses
- $111,160
- Assets (EOY)
- $115,254
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $94,436
- Expenses
- $47,172
- Assets (EOY)
- $87,587
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $675,384
- Expenses
- $758,076
- Assets (EOY)
- $129,354
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $578,180
- Expenses
- $510,992
- Assets (EOY)
- $200,456
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
No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.
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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.