Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION
OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,005,084 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($762,350). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Open Discourse Coalition does
Mission
The Open Discourse Coalition supports activities providing a variety of intellectual viewpoints in academia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fellowships are used to provide student and faculty research and learning tools that support the principles of Open Discourse Coalition.
$440,475 spentof which $78,402 as grants35% of program spendingLeadership seminars: the capstone of odc's student-centric programming is a leadership seminar where students participate in a four-week immersive program. Odc also offers other student seminars throughout the year.
$34,278 spentof which $3,150 as grants3% of program spendingSpeaker events: odc hosts or funds events throughout the year featuring guest speakers, including authors, entrepreneurs, and professors. The events covered speak to the themes of odc's mission.
$60,033 spent5% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$713,394 spent$3,217 earned by the program57% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,248,180.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.8M to $2.2M (−22%).
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 OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION’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 6 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.
Board chair
Susan Crawford
Director and chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $245k → $790k.
11 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION’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
OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
65% 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 OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 20% · 2022 21% · 2023 26% — 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
64% of OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 19 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION: 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 OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION?
- OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,005,084 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($762,350). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $3,005,084 in grants to OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $762,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 27 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing