Mission
Educational seminars & programs
Public Charity
Free Enterprise Institute
Free Enterprise Institute is a Public Charity headquartered in Houston, TX. Financial data from the 2025 filing: $312K revenue, $297K expenses, $405K total assets. 15 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $139K, appear in IRS filings.
EIN: 741887755
Houston, TX
Youth Development - Business
NTEE: O53
Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$312K
Total Expenses$297K
Total Assets$405K
Grant Records15
Funding Total$139K
Filing Years2020–2025
Where $100 goes at Free Enterprise Institute
How Free Enterprise Institute divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 8 years.
$82
Programs
the work itself
$18
Management
running the organization
$0
Fundraising
none reported
No fundraising costs are reported. That often means fundraising runs through a separate affiliated organization that files its own return.
Inside the $82 for programs
$59
Free Enterprise Institute
$23
The Imaginative Conservative offers to our families, our communities, and the Republic, a conservatism of hope, grace, charity, gratitude and prayer
Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.
Sample Grants Received
$10,000
$10,000
COMMUNITY OUTREACH & ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS
$10,000
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS & OTHER STUDENT SVC
$10,000
$10,000
Showing up to 5 of 15 total records — full history available with membership.
Officers & Directors
Trustee
Bradley Birzer
Trustee
Gleaves Whitney
Trustee
Ted Cruz
President
W Winston Elliott Iii
Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.
Top Grant Purposes
Financial Trends
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $312K | $297K | $405K |
| 2024 | $216K | $250K | $390K |
| 2023 | $170K | $297K | $424K |
| 2022 | $217K | $375K | $550K |
| 2020 | $338K | $487K | $782K |
Between 2020 and 2025, reported annual revenue declined from $338K to $312K (-8%), with total assets most recently reported at $405K.
Interactive year-over-year charts and full filing details available with membership.