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TRUE FREEDOM INC

EIN 46-4701022 CLEVELAND, OH

Revenue 2024
$978,480
Expenses 2024
$994,494

Program services were 76.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I43
Classification
1200
Street
2005 CYPRESS AVE

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 · 2024

Mission

True Freedom Ministries is an evangelical, non-profit organization dedicated to reaching people locked in jails and prisons, the homeless, and those trapped in addiction across Ohio with the message of the true freedom found only in Jesus Christ.

  • True Freedom Ministries, in partnership with correctional facilities and private organizations, applies a multi-faceted approach to Prison Ministry incorporating evangelism, discipleship and mentorship with pre-release education and post-release programming. This approach creates a climate based upon faith, positive values and accountability, and provides the tools to equip prisoners and ex-offenders with behavioral skills, job training and experience. The True Freedom Addiction Recovery Ministry holds weekly meetings at our office in Cleveland. Our program utilizes the Christ-centered curriculums and allows us to establish relationships with people struggling to break their addictive behaviors. This program also serves as the centerpiece of our Prison Ministry Re-Entry Program as we recognize a majority of former prisoners and ex-offenders have struggled or continue to struggle with addiction.

    Expenses $763,110

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Michael Swiger

    President

    Total calculated
    $72,587
    From this org
    $72,587
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    60

  • Jon Lawrence

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Frank Sinito

    Board Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jessica McCamon

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Kimberly Smith Rivera

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Reuben Gobezie

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Richard Gibson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris Bryniarski

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $978,480
    Expenses
    $994,494
    Contributions
    $971,830
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,054,220
    Expenses
    $965,178
    Contributions
    $1,033,939
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $974,293
    Expenses
    $874,133
    Contributions
    $991,500
    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
    $1,015,910
    Expenses
    $751,578
    Assets (EOY)
    $986,672

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $959,475
    Expenses
    $749,167
    Assets (EOY)
    $712,032

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $788,816
    Expenses
    $761,628
    Assets (EOY)
    $544,374

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $837,624
    Expenses
    $813,058
    Assets (EOY)
    $522,508

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $837,624
    Expenses
    $813,058
    Assets (EOY)
    $522,508

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $894,345
    Expenses
    $790,955
    Assets (EOY)
    $559,494

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $761,890
    Expenses
    $626,854
    Assets (EOY)
    $450,914

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $597,873
    Expenses
    $462,207
    Assets (EOY)
    $327,373

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.