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TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND

EIN 74-2788317 AUSTIN, TX

Revenue 2024
$4,802,674
Expenses 2024
$5,649,048

Program services were 75.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R26
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 1624

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).

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.

  • JAMES ALDRETE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • NEIL BLUMOFE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • EMMA BROCKWAY

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • JONI COHAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • ODUS EVBAGHARU

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • OLAC FUENTES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • NEAL KATZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • NICOLE LEFAVE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • ANNIE LINEBARGER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • COLLEEN LOPER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • KATRINA MENDIOLA

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • CECILE RICHARDS

    TFN FOUNDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • VALERIE BENAVIDEZ

    PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $318,327
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $286,229
    Other
    $32,098
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $286,229 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $6,250 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $25,848 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $318,327 related

  • KELSEY HITCHINGHAM

    CHIEF FINANCE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $132,150
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $119,642
    Other
    $12,508
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

  • MARTI BIER

    VP PROGRAMS

    Total calculated
    $126,046
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $117,262
    Other
    $8,784
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

  • CARISA LOPEZ

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $136,037
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $120,266
    Other
    $15,771
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

  • LAWRENCE GREEN

    SR ORGANIZATIONAL ADVISOR/OMBUDSMAN

    Total calculated
    $127,195
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $120,642
    Other
    $6,553
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 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 — 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
    $4,802,674
    Expenses
    $5,649,048
    Contributions
    $4,695,532
    Grants paid
    $713,415
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,401,728
    Expenses
    $5,578,252
    Contributions
    $5,312,850
    Grants paid
    $722,677
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,990,271
    Expenses
    $5,003,597
    Contributions
    $5,969,863
    Grants paid
    $1,390,875

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.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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

Listed as of 10 September 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.