2026-06-20T11:23:15-07:00 2025-12-31 990EZ 2025-01-01 454544486 RIGHT TO BE FREE RIGH 8477359210 1130 Old Colony Road Lake Forest IL 600454301 Lorraine Dillon President 8477359210 2026-06-20 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X www.righttobefree.org X X 70479 X 70479 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 70479 60000 0 0 0 0 4 1041 61045 9434 3318 3 12755 3318 12755 0 0 0 0 3318 12755 0 0 3318 12755 We fund the rescue, rehabilitation and reintegration of child slaves and provide for their basic needs (shelter when needed), food, clothing and education. We provide grants to Right To Be Free, an NGO in Ghana to fund the rescue, rehabilitation and reintegration of child slaves, and educational outreach programs in impoverished communities where child trafficking is endemic. 60000 X 60000 60000 Lorraine Dillon President 25 0 0 0 Thomas Lesko Treasurer 2 0 0 0 Kathy Sparrenberger Secretary 0.3 0 0 0 John Louis Trustee 0.2 0 0 0 Carol Lynne Krumes Trustee 0.2 0 0 0 Daniel Munoz Trustee 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IL Lorraine Dillon 1130 Old Colony Road Lake Forest IL 600454301 8477359210 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 79841 125707 79737 138060 70479 493824 79841 125707 79737 138060 70479 493824 109626 384198 493824 0.77801 0.78107 X Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 (Other Expenses): Total reflects expenditures for website hosting, bank fees, PayPal processing fees, and general operating expenses including annual corporate filing and reporting fees totaling $1,041. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 (Other Changes in Net Assets): Line 20 reflects a $3 adjustment to reconcile beginning net assets and minor current-year whole-dollar rounding discrepancies with the organization's cash balance. The delay in filing was not due to willful neglect. Our volunteer-run organization exercised ordinary business care and prudence but was severely disrupted during the filing window due to an erroneous automated IRS compliance action against me personally. Specifically, I had to dedicate significant time and resources to responding to multiple conflicting IRS notices claiming I had failed to file a 2024 Form 1040 individual tax return. This notice was generated in error by the IRS, since I have filed a compliant, timely Married Filing Jointly return with my husband every year since 1990. I placed multiple phone calls to IRS customer service lines on separate occasions to resolve this matter, but the agents were unable to provide a resolution at that time. I sent a copy of our Married Joint return as an agent instructed and since I have not heard from the IRS again, I presume it has finally been resolved. Concurrently, the IRS sent letters to my husband claiming he failed to file a Form 1095-C, an employer health insurance document that was completely inapplicable as he has been retired for four years. The IRS has since successfully processed our joint return, concluding that we were owed a refund. Resolving this stressful, multi-layered bureaucratic mismatch consumed the limited administrative time I had allocated to managing this small nonprofit's annual paperwork. As an unpaid officer, I had to prioritize resolving the urgent personal tax dispute with the IRS first before I could finalize the organization's Form 990-EZ records, which are reviewed by our Treasurer. To ensure this delay never happens again, I have updated our compliance calendar with digital alerts set three months in advance of the May 15 deadline to guarantee future submissions are finalized and reviewed well ahead of schedule. Right To Be Free maintains an excellent history of timely tax submissions. Under penalty of perjury, I declare that the facts presented here are, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true, correct, and complete.