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Subsection

03

NTEE code

Q70

Classification

1000

Street

115 PINE AVE STE 210

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

• CAPACITY BUILDING: AS NORTH KOREANS RESETTLE AND BEGIN NAVIGATING THEIR NEW LIVES, MANY ASPIRE TO NOT ONLY FIND SUCCESS, BUT ALSO WORK TOWARDS IMPACTING THIS ISSUE. WE IDENTIFY CURRENT NEEDS IN THE DEFECTOR COMMUNITY AND DEVELOP PROGRAMS TO INCREASE ACCESS TO EDUCATION, SKILL-BUILDING, AND CAREER OPPORTUNITIES. WITH THE TOOLS THEY NEED, NORTH KOREANS PROVE THEIR POTENTIAL AS AGENTS OF CHANGE ON CAMPUS, IN THE WORKPLACE, AND ON THE GLOBAL STAGE. IN 2025, 144 NORTH KOREANS WERE EMPOWERED THROUGH OUR PROGRAMS. FOR FURTHER DETAILS ABOUT OUR CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS, VISIT: HTTPS://LBRTYNK.ORG/AR-2025-CB

  Expenses $1,036,323 · Grants $647,047

• INFORMATION ACCESS: INFORMATION ACCESS IS OUR SPACE TO COLLABORATE, INNOVATE, AND DEVELOP NEW INITIATIVES TO EMPOWER NORTH KOREAN PEOPLE WITH INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD. IN 2025, WE LAUNCHED 7 TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS AND OVER 80,000 LINES OF CODE WITH THE AID OF 68 NORTH KOREAN DEFECTORS. FOR FURTHER DETAILS ABOUT OUR INFORMATION ACCESS PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS, VISIT: HTTPS://LBRTYNK.ORG/AR-2025-IA

  Expenses $745,942

• CHANGING THE NARRATIVE: WHILE DICTATORS AND NUCLEAR MISSILES COMMAND HEADLINES ABOUT NORTH KOREA, THEY ERASE THE REAL HEART OF THE COUNTRY ITS PEOPLE. LINK AMPLIFIES NORTH KOREAN VOICES THROUGH ONLINE MEDIA, DOCUMENTARIES, AND EVENTS, AND EMPOWERS NORTH KOREANS TO TAKE AUTHORSHIP OVER THEIR OWN STORIES. IN 2025, 11,833,136 PEOPLE WERE REACHED ONLINE AND 2,746 PEOPLE WERE REACHED IN-PERSON. FOR FURTHER DETAILS ABOUT OUR CHANGING THE NARRATIVE PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS, VISIT: HTTPS://LBRTYNK.ORG/AR-2025-CTN.

  Expenses $619,883

• RESCUE & RESETTLEMENT: WE HELP NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES REACH FREEDOM THROUGH A 3,000-MILE SECRET RESCUE ROUTE FROM NORTHERN CHINA TO SOUTHEAST ASIA. FROM THERE, NORTH KOREANS CAN SAFELY RESETTLE IN SOUTH KOREA OR THE US. OUR TEAM HELPS THEM SUCCEED IN THEIR NEW LIVES WITH FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, COMMUNITY BUILDING, AND ACCESS TO RESOURCES AND SERVICES. IN 2025, 17 NORTH KOREANS WERE RESCUED, 22 WERE RESETTLED, AND 122 WERE SUPPORTED THROUGH THEIR RESETTLEMENT. FOR FURTHER DETAILS ABOUT OUR RESCUE AND RESETTLEMENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS, VISIT: HTTPS://LBRTYNK.ORG/AR-2025-RR

  Expenses $619,167

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $4,172,454

  Expenses

  $4,302,288

  Contributions

  $4,125,876

  Grants paid

  $647,047

• 2024

  Revenue

  $4,888,986

  Expenses

  $4,930,895

  Contributions

  $4,761,032

  Grants paid

  $548,420

• 2023

  Revenue

  $4,487,447

  Expenses

  $5,424,703

  Contributions

  $4,456,529

  Grants paid

  $719,224

• 2022

  Revenue

  $4,117,275

  Expenses

  $3,994,654

  Contributions

  $4,335,884

  Grants paid

  $575,908

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

  $4,651,220

  Expenses

  $2,989,843

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,937,762

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,222,922

  Expenses

  $2,709,210

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,440,795

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,082,445

  Expenses

  $3,624,138

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,659,114

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,148,392

  Expenses

  $3,524,094

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,209,191

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,225,878

  Expenses

  $2,117,955

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,561,555

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,110,291

  Expenses

  $2,146,555

  Assets (EOY)

  $494,647

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,156,221

  Expenses

  $2,388,857

  Assets (EOY)

  $501,137

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,087,643

  Expenses

  $1,795,121

  Assets (EOY)

  $683,545

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,405,394

  Expenses

  $1,204,823

  Assets (EOY)

  $319,685

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

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $558,140

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $461,737

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $400,000

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $365,880

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC

  $260,000

  2024 · UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $253,500

  2024 · INTERNATIONAL

• CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $250,000

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $238,324

  2022 · INTERNATIONAL

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $157,351

  2023 · INTERNATIONAL, FOREIGN AFFAIRS

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $133,000

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

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

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