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EVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION

EIN 94-3136961 OLYMPIA, WA

Revenue 2024
$21,450,375
Expenses 2024
$19,312,639

Program services were 78.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Z99Z
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 552

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.

  • TOM MCCABE

    PRESIDENT / CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $30,000
    From this org
    $30,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • RICHARD ROKES

    VICE-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LOU NOVAK

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEFF CYSEWSKI

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AARON WITHE

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $695,517
    From this org
    $667,409
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,108
    Hours/week
    40 + 0.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $467,409
    Bonus
    $200,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $11,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,608
    Filer's total
    $695,517

  • ROBERT WICKERS

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $269,323
    From this org
    $252,130
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,193
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $205,698
    Bonus
    $46,432
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,693
    Filer's total
    $269,323

  • BRIAN MINNICH

    EVP

    Total calculated
    $325,966
    From this org
    $318,616
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,350
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $267,916
    Bonus
    $50,700
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,350
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $325,966

  • JASON DUDASH

    WEST COAST DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $167,516
    From this org
    $154,174
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,342
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $94,167
    Bonus
    $60,007
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,400
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,942
    Filer's total
    $167,516

  • TAMAS BAKO

    VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $155,639
    From this org
    $152,433
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,206
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $148,333
    Bonus
    $4,100
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,206
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $155,639

  • MICHAEL CICCIO

    NATIONAL DIRECTOR OUTREACH

    Total calculated
    $149,600
    From this org
    $149,600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • HUNTER TOWER

    EAST COAST DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $156,245
    From this org
    $144,567
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,678
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $99,167
    Bonus
    $45,400
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,524
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,154
    Filer's total
    $156,245

  • ERIC STAHLFELD

    CHIEF LITIGATION COUNSEL

    Total calculated
    $165,220
    From this org
    $139,225
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,995
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $114,125
    Bonus
    $25,100
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,456
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,539
    Filer's total
    $165,220

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
    $21,450,375
    Expenses
    $19,312,639
    Contributions
    $21,221,438
    Grants paid
    $2,500,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $17,166,848
    Expenses
    $17,245,798
    Contributions
    $17,009,590
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $12,381,107
    Expenses
    $12,067,318
    Contributions
    $12,375,602
    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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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 2024 return

Declared as related by

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • GATEWAY COMMUNICATIONS INC

    $1,755 raised

    2024 Commercial Fundraiser

    $1,755 to charity

  • GATEWAY COMMUNICATIONS INC

    $11,937 raised

    2023 Commercial Fundraiser

    $11,937 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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.