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FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE

EIN 23-1657857 VALLEY FORGE, PA

Revenue 2023
$2,027,484
Expenses 2023
$3,078,126

Program services were 74.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Street
1601 VALLEY FORGE ROAD PO BOX 67

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 · 2023

Mission

TO EDUCATE ABOUT AMERICAN RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES, HONOR ACTS OF CIVIC VIRTUE, AND CHALLENGE ALL TO REJECT APATHY AND GET INVOLVED.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDE CIVIC EDUCATION PROGRAMS TO TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

  • CIVIC EDUCATION: FREEDOMS FOUNDATION OFFERS EDUCATION PROGRAMS TARGETING PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS. IN 2023, EIGHTEEN PROGRAMS FOR 921 PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS FOCUSED ON THE FOUNDING OF THE COUNTRY AND ESTABLISHING DEEPLY PERSONAL CONNECTIONS TO HISTORY. SIXTEEN PROGRAMS FOR 742 HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STUDENTS FOCUSED ON CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY, AMERICAN HISTORY, AND THE FOUNDING DOCUMENTS. IN 2023, PROGRAMS WERE HELD IN PERSON ON OUR 72-ACRE CAMPUS AND INCLUDED NEARLY 37,000 HOURS OF STUDENT INSTRUCTION IN CIVIC EDUCATION.(CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)FREEDOMS FOUNDATION ALSO OFFERS EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR TEACHERS. IN 2023, WE WELCOMED 238 TEACHERS TO OUR IN-PERSON GRADUATE PROGRAMS, INCLUDING 5 SEMINARS AND 1 TRAVELING WORKSHOP, WHICH PROVIDE HISTORY AND CIVIC CONTENT BY EXPOSING TEACHERS TO EXTRAORDINARY SCHOLARS AND THINKERS IN PROGRAMS ON THE CONSTITUTION, AMERICAN HISTORY, CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT, AND AMERICAN VALUES. WITH TEACHERS AVERAGING 100 STUDENTS IN A SINGLE SCHOOL YEAR, THIS MEANS MORE THAN 23,800 STUDENTS WERE OR WILL BE IMPACTED BY FREEDOMS FOUNDATION'S EFFORTS IN THE 2023-2024 SCHOOL YEAR.

    Expenses $2,261,040 · Revenue $768,163

  • HONORING ACTS OF CIVIC VIRTUE: THROUGH ITS NATIONAL AWARDS PROGRAM, FREEDOMS FOUNDATION RECOGNIZED 101 INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN 2023 AS EXAMPLES OF CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY. THIS PROGRAM RECOGNIZES ADULTS AND STUDENTS FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE, PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS, STUDENT ESSAYS, SPECIAL EVENTS, AND OUTSTANDING WORK IN THE CLASSROOM. SINCE ITS FOUNDING, MORE THAN 57,000 NATIONAL AWARDS HAVE BEEN PRESENTED.

    Expenses $31,331

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • DAVID J HARMER

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $351,826
    From this org
    $301,372
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $50,454
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $301,372
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $28,038
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,416
    Filer's total
    $351,826

  • JASPER WYMAN

    VICE PRESIDENT OF ADVANCEMENT

    Total calculated
    $153,148
    From this org
    $141,558
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,590
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $141,558
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $11,423
    Nontaxable benefits
    $167
    Filer's total
    $153,148

  • JASON RAIA

    COO

    Total calculated
    $150,155
    From this org
    $133,013
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,142
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $133,013
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $10,374
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,768
    Filer's total
    $150,155

  • JORDAN W CLEMENTS

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DIANE DESHONG

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JON NEHLSEN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHELBY SCARBROUGH

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WILLIAM P BENAC SR

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • LARRY BRASHER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • SALLY BRINTON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • SANDY COOK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JAMES C MCCLOUGHAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • MARK NASO

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • MARVELL RUPPEL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • LYALL SWIM

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,027,484
    Expenses
    $3,078,126
    Contributions
    $913,772
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,918,390
    Expenses
    $2,881,527
    Contributions
    $1,080,600
    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
    $2,192,144
    Expenses
    $2,203,888
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,030,512

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,770,106
    Expenses
    $2,030,039
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,113,934

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,004,272
    Expenses
    $3,277,801
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,679,872

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,503,227
    Expenses
    $2,924,326
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,722,279

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,715,596
    Expenses
    $2,594,071
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,802,598

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,346,569
    Expenses
    $2,207,199
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,237,632

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,801,463
    Expenses
    $1,861,325
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,333,627

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,813,613
    Expenses
    $1,942,469
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,511,809

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,968,708
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,922,876

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,089,655
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,461,569

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

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 2023 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 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.