Texas · Nonprofit
CORNELL FREE SPEECH ALLIANCE
CORNELL FREE SPEECH ALLIANCE (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,000 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $204k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $131k
- Net assets
- $259k
What Cornell Free Speech Alliance does
Mission
Cornell Free Speech Alliance is formed for the purpose of educating alumni, faculty, students, staff, and family members about the benefits of free speech, viewpoint diversity and academic freedom at all institutes of higher learning and to provide opportunities for each of these constituents to pursue all forms of knowledge without the fear or pressure from majority or vocal minority viewpoints.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Gathering of contact information for 150,000+ cornell alumni
$12,276 spent10% of program spendingCreated, submitted and lobbied administration and trustees to adopt key Cornell Free Speech Alliance policy platform for cornell university, including chicago principles, kalven report, and hiring practices.
$98,205 spentof which $5,000 as grants80% of program spendingCreated programs for other alumni groups to influence their school's administrations and trustees.
$12,276 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $122,757.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $186k to $259k (+39%).
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.
97% of CORNELL FREE SPEECH ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $44k → $31k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 CORNELL FREE SPEECH ALLIANCE’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
CORNELL FREE SPEECH ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
63% 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 CORNELL FREE SPEECH ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 43% · 2023 81% — growing more concentrated.
“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
CORNELL FREE SPEECH ALLIANCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CORNELL FREE SPEECH ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CORNELL FREE SPEECH ALLIANCE
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CORNELL FREE SPEECH ALLIANCE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CORNELL FREE SPEECH ALLIANCE?
- CORNELL FREE SPEECH ALLIANCE (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,000 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CORNELL FREE SPEECH ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $131,000 in grants to CORNELL FREE SPEECH ALLIANCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CORNELL FREE SPEECH ALLIANCE?
- Donors Trust Inc is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CORNELL FREE SPEECH ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Cornell Free Speech Alliance →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 10 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