Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY
THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,237,324 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,042,547). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.0M
- Funders on record
- 96
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What The Center for American Liberty does
Mission
The Center for American Liberty leads the fight for free speech and civil liberties across the country. By leveraging its nationwide network of litigators, The Center for American Liberty zealously advocates on behalf of individuals whose first amendment rights have been censored and who are victims of illegal discrimination.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Center for American Liberty is at the forefront of the movement to defend free speech and civil liberties protected under the constitution. Building off its the supreme court victories in 2021, The Center for American Liberty defended the rights of parents whose children were being socially "transitioned," absent parental consent or notification, by public schools; defended the rights of young girls who were surgically and chemically "transitioned," by gender clinics, without informed consent; and defended the free speech rights of peaceful demonstrators and journalists. In 2025, The Center for American Liberty won important civil liberties cases at the first, second, and ninth circuit courts of appeal.
$4,090,768 spent$10,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,090,768.
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 2024 to 2025, from $970k to $2.0M (+111%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Mark Trammell
CEO & executive director
Board chair
Jason Clark
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $207k → $1.6M.
21 of 96 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 96 funders by total. 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
THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 86% · 2021 34% · 2022 38% · 2023 48% — 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.
How long its funders stay
46% of THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
76% of THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY'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 $2.4M that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 24 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY: 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 THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY?
- THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,237,324 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,042,547). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY have?
- IRS filings report 96 organizations giving $10,237,324 in grants to THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,042,547 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY 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.
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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 96 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