puddleperfect

1) I couldn't tell you the exact cost, as I'm not solely responsible for getting them out of their situation. I've spent a total of just under 1k which provided living expenses for 2 of the individuals until they were able to leave the country. I also provided the money for plane tickets for 2 of the individuals. The amount of money is really negligible and I consider it, by far, the best used money I've ever owned.

2) Overt atheism and being a proponent of secularizing the school system, criticizing the treatment of non-muslims by muslims in a way deemed inflammatory , and protesting against gender inequality in a way deemed too extreme for the country of origin.

3) Nothing happened to their families. They were all young and hadn't started their own, and their parents didn't advocate for this behavior, and in one case publically denounced their child and another beat their child.

4) I won't say the exact countries, but they went from North African to European countries.

Edited: for missing answer

1. The opportunity presented itself, and the benefit to these individuals was so great, and my sacrifice was so small. I consider this the best usage of money in my life. Its like getting a gift for someone, and the gift is the ability to feel relatively safe expressing themselves, and it's on sale in the dollar store.
2. I think that these people wanted very much to change their society for the better, and would love to return home. Whether they can or not? I'm not sure.
3. They all left their families behind.
4. My family doesn't know that I do this. I'm at no risk of being arrested or killed for this in the United States.

From what I understand, that is the majority view among scholars in Sunni Islam. This would be a good question to ask over at the r/exmuslim and r/islam subreddits. There is a variety of views on the subject amongst muslims. I suggest you take a look at this pew poll. Of the muslim majority countries polled the support of the death penalty for apostates varies among Muslims from 5 to 86%

Their families were not supportive of them, and their actions. In two cases their family took action against them, either by denouncing their actions publicly, or actually physically abusing their child.

I'm not sure what you're implying would happen to their family, the government didn't take any action against them, nor the population.

The closest I've ever been to being at risk in the situation was when one of these individuals received a phone call by an individual threatening to take his life and mentioned that he knew he was being wired money from his "friends in the US". This could have been a guy who really knew that I had in fact done this, or it could have been a wild conspiracy theory (The Israeli/american ties conspiracy is quite common). These individuals have enough balls to make a Krogan look like Lance Armstrong. There is really nothing too ballsy about what I did. I was just in a situation in which I could help, and I did.