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FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE

EIN 75-1403169 PLANO, TX

Revenue 2024
$29,330,476
Expenses 2024
$26,422,108

Program services were 78.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R40Z
Classification
7000
Street
2001 W PLANO PKWY

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.

  • TIM DUNN

    VICE CHAIR EXEC COMM/BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK COVER

    CHAIR EXEC COMM/BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AL ANGELL

    EXEC COMM/BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMES ROBERTSON

    EXEC COMM/BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAT CLINE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DEBORAH MUSE CARLSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DALE BROWN

    EXEC COMM/BOARD MEMBER/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN BARTLEY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAT DANIELS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JODY THORNTON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID MOORE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KELLY SHACKELFORD

    PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $627,042
    From this org
    $588,889
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $38,153
    Hours/week
    55

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $465,031
    Bonus
    $123,858
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $20,700
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,453
    Filer's total
    $627,042

  • DAVID HOLMES

    COO/CFO/EVP

    Total calculated
    $507,643
    From this org
    $468,753
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $38,890
    Hours/week
    55

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $381,554
    Bonus
    $87,199
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $20,700
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,190
    Filer's total
    $507,643

  • JEFF MATEER

    CLO/EVP

    Total calculated
    $465,182
    From this org
    $427,569
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,613
    Hours/week
    55

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $347,633
    Bonus
    $79,936
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $20,700
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,913
    Filer's total
    $465,182

  • STEVE PURDUM

    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $213,285
    From this org
    $196,067
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,218
    Hours/week
    55

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,285
    Bonus
    $41,782
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,218
    Filer's total
    $213,285

  • HIRAM S SASSER

    EXEC. GEN. COUNSEL

    Total calculated
    $332,029
    From this org
    $300,905
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $31,124
    Hours/week
    55

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $259,616
    Bonus
    $41,289
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $19,638
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,486
    Filer's total
    $332,029

  • DAVID HACKER

    VP LITIGATION/SR. COUNSEL

    Total calculated
    $319,201
    From this org
    $284,965
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,236
    Hours/week
    55

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $236,460
    Bonus
    $48,505
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $18,689
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,547
    Filer's total
    $319,201

  • REBECCA DUMMERMUTH

    COUNSEL

    Total calculated
    $287,539
    From this org
    $258,186
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,353
    Hours/week
    55

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $235,415
    Bonus
    $22,771
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $11,093
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,260
    Filer's total
    $287,539

  • JEREMY DYS

    SENIOR COUNSEL

    Total calculated
    $226,116
    From this org
    $201,462
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,654
    Hours/week
    55

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $155,754
    Bonus
    $45,708
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,176
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,478
    Filer's total
    $226,116

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
    $29,330,476
    Expenses
    $26,422,108
    Contributions
    $26,901,638
    Grants paid
    $154,918
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $22,142,341
    Expenses
    $24,763,979
    Contributions
    $21,203,306
    Grants paid
    $164,600
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $24,336,900
    Expenses
    $23,902,426
    Contributions
    $23,962,072
    Grants paid
    $166,000

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.

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.