California · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF INDEX ON CENSORSHIP
FRIENDS OF INDEX ON CENSORSHIP (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $187,303 to it, the largest being SRW FOUNDATION ($130,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $0
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $187k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Friends of Index on Censorship does
Mission
The purpose of the organization is: 1) to support global freedom of expression by publishing work by, or about, censored writers, campaigners, artists, and others facing threats to their free expression; 2) to promote debate about the universal right of free expression through projects, including monitoring and research, events, and educational programs; 3) to support those facing censorship; and 4) to campaign against threats to freedom of expression.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization was dorminat for the current filing year and is in the discussion process of possibly closing the organization by their next year-end, march 31, 2026.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $5k to $3k (−32%).
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.
0% of FRIENDS OF INDEX ON CENSORSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $130k → $9k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 FRIENDS OF INDEX ON CENSORSHIP’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
FRIENDS OF INDEX ON CENSORSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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
73% of FRIENDS OF INDEX ON CENSORSHIP's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
FRIENDS OF INDEX ON CENSORSHIP's revenue fell 100% between 2018 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,102 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like FRIENDS OF INDEX ON CENSORSHIP
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
23%
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 FRIENDS OF INDEX ON CENSORSHIP: 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 FRIENDS OF INDEX ON CENSORSHIP?
- FRIENDS OF INDEX ON CENSORSHIP (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $187,303 to it, the largest being SRW FOUNDATION ($130,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF INDEX ON CENSORSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $187,303 in grants to FRIENDS OF INDEX ON CENSORSHIP.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF INDEX ON CENSORSHIP?
- SRW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF INDEX ON CENSORSHIP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2018–2022), and the filings of 3 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