Arizona · Nonprofit
Citizens for Free Speech Charitable Tr
Citizens for Free Speech Charitable Tr (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,219 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($160,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $176k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $185k
- Net assets
- $12k
What Citizens for Free Speech Charitable Tr does
Mission
The Vision of Citizens For Free Speech is to restore and defend the art of peaceful intelligent and productive communication through local action. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. First Amendment U.S. Constitution CFFS promotes successful local activism by showing its members how to effectively communicate and exercise their First Amendment rights in every public or private situation. We mobilize our members to achieve success in their local communities by giving them tools strategies training and encouragement to restore civility in the civic arena and to teach others to do the same.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Training workshops
$25,000 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $25,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $37k to $12k (−67%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of Citizens for Free Speech Charitable Tr’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Patrick Wood
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $75k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Citizens for Free Speech Charitable Tr’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Citizens for Free Speech Charitable Tr leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Citizens for Free Speech Charitable Tr.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 52% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Citizens for Free Speech Charitable Tr's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Citizens for Free Speech Charitable Tr receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $185k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,718 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like Citizens for Free Speech Charitable Tr
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Citizens for Free Speech Charitable Tr: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Citizens for Free Speech Charitable Tr?
- Citizens for Free Speech Charitable Tr (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,219 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($160,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Citizens for Free Speech Charitable Tr have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $185,219 in grants to Citizens for Free Speech Charitable Tr, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Citizens for Free Speech Charitable Tr?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $160,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Citizens for Free Speech Charitable Tr find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing