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DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM

EIN 81-3571494 COPPELL, TX

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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Bryan Watson

    President - Pittsburgh

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Robert J Casey II

    V/P - Pittsburgh

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • 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
  • Adam Whitaker

    Treasurer - Pittsburgh

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Donna Cranston

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Brian Hughes

    President - Kansas City

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Brandi Hughes

    Sec/Treas - Kansas City

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Chris Blom

    Vice President - Kansas City

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Jamie Wells

    President - Florida

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Rob Vickers

    Director - Florida

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Martin Angulo

    Director - Florida

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michelle Caldwell

    Director - Florida

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • 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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $177,473
    Expenses
    $253,819
    Contributions
    $223,579
    Grants paid
    $530
  • 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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $140,200
    Expenses
    $111,160
    Assets (EOY)
    $115,254
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $94,436
    Expenses
    $47,172
    Assets (EOY)
    $87,587
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $675,384
    Expenses
    $758,076
    Assets (EOY)
    $129,354
  • 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.