Florida · Nonprofit
FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION INC
FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $996,451 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($518,180). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $996k
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Free Speech Foundation Inc does
Mission
The principal purpose shall be to further its charitable, scientific, literary, religious and educational purposes, with a focus on educating the public on the enduring importance of the bill of rights to america's history and civic traditions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Hosted an event titled freedom summit featuring more than a dozen physicians and attorneys who presented on current state of the medical system and relevant litigation, and their assessments of the successes and failures of various public health measures. Dr. Gold supplemented these activities with radio interviews, articles, and blog posts examining the same issues. Produced a full-length documentary on the issues with gender transition of children exposing the ethical and legal implications. Created a 5-part video series detailing the medical facts of gender transition along with the financial incentives being offered to doctors. Filed amici curiae briefs for five legal cases with four of those taken up by scotus.
$3,852,590 spentof which $37,271 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,852,590.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $543k to $7.8M (+1332%).
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.
99% of FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Lisa Alexander
Exec. Dir./Sec
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $97k → $160k.
7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION INC’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
FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 39% · 2022 73% · 2023 57% — 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
97% of FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION INC'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 $34k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $963k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION INC
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION INC: 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 FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION INC?
- FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $996,451 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($518,180). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $996,451 in grants to FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $518,180 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 16 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