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CITIZENS COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM

EIN 41-1916724 SAINT PAUL, MN

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Revenue 2025
$1,322,282
Expenses 2025
$985,361

Program services were 82.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E80
Classification
2000
Street
161 RONDO AVE STE 923

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 · 2025

Mission

CCHF EXISTS TO PROTECT PATIENT AND DOCTOR FREEDOM.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $571,564 · Grants $4,000

  • POLICY INITIATIVES:FEDERAL:CCHF WENT TO WASHINGTON, D.C. THREE TIMES FOR MEETINGS WITH CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS AND STAFF. OUR TOP TWO TOPICS WERE THE RETIREMENT FREEDOM ACT (RFA), TO ALLOW SENIOR CITIZENS TO OPT OUT OF MEDICARE WITHOUT LOSING SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS, AND REAL ID. MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE:CCHF HELPED A LEGISLATOR TO ADVANCE PROTECTIONS FOR DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICES. DPC LANGUAGE IN THE OMNIBUS HHS BILL BECAME LAW. WE ALSO WORKED THROUGH TESTIMONY, MEETINGS, A PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT CAMPAIGN, AND SHARING OF INFORMATION TO TRY TO STOP THE SALE OF MINNESOTANS' HEALTH DATA HOUSED IN THE STATE'S ALL-PAYER CLAIMS DATABASE.STATE LEGISLATURES NATIONWIDE:CCHF WORKED WITH LEGISLATORS AND ENGAGED INDIVIDUALS TO SECURE OR ADVANCE PROTECTIVE LEGISLATION IN ARIZONA, IOWA, MICHIGAN, MISSOURI, SOUTH CAROLINA, TENNESSEE, WEST VIRGINIA, AND WISCONSIN. TOPICS INCLUDED PATIENT PRIVACY, DIGITAL IDS, AND REAL ID.

    Expenses $163,304

  • SPECIAL PROJECTS:REAL ID CCHF SECURED DONATIONS TO POST REFUSEREALID.ORG BILLBOARDS IN TEXAS, KENTUCKY, AND FLORIDA. CCHF ALSO SECURED FUNDING TO LAUNCH A CAMPAIGN TO BRING OUR PERSPECTIVE ON REAL ID TO ATTORNEY GENERALS, AND TO COMMISSION THE SERVICES OF A FORMER SOLICITOR GENERAL TO WRITE A LEGAL ANALYSIS ON REAL ID, WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN SEPTEMBER 2025. ADDED HANDOUTS TO OUR HELPFUL HANDOUTS SECTION OF THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING "REAL ID HISTORY," "REFUSE REAL ID A PRACTICAL GUIDE, AND "REAL ID 5 FACTS."WEDGE OF HEALTH FREEDOM - THE WEDGE OF HEALTH FREEDOM (THE WEDGE), OUR FREE NATIONAL ONLINE DIRECTORY OF DIRECT-PAY, PATIENT-CENTERED, AFFORDABLE, THIRD-PARTY FREE PRACTICES, INCLUDING FOUR CASH-BASED PHARMACIES, AND A NUMBER OF DENTAL PRACTICES, CONTINUED TO GROW ORGANICALLY FROM 498 PRACTICES TO 534 A GROWTH OF 7.2 PERCENT.MEDICARE HOW-TO GUIDE REVISED AND UPDATED SECTIONS OF OUR POPULAR 2024 GUIDE AND RE-PUBLISHED IT IN NOVEMBER 2025.

    Expenses $81,652 · Revenue $7,965

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jeremy Munson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Kay Nickelson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Keith Meyer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Mary Aszmann

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Mike Melnychuk

    VICE-TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nigel Clemonds

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Saga Stevin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Twila Brase

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $140,850
    From this org
    $140,850
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    55
  • Wayne King

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stehanie Hood

    DIRECTOR

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,322,282
    Expenses
    $985,361
    Contributions
    $1,294,112
    Grants paid
    $4,000
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $936,468
    Expenses
    $757,707
    Contributions
    $839,945
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $791,297
    Expenses
    $664,032
    Contributions
    $805,566
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $929,728
    Expenses
    $722,236
    Contributions
    $932,248
    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
    $1,237,665
    Expenses
    $579,453
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,615,674
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $755,393
    Expenses
    $398,949
    Assets (EOY)
    $959,967

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

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

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.