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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by FUTURE OF FREE SPEECH.

Totals

Total revenue
$906,399
Total expenses
$1,030,810
Contributions and grants received
$905,943
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$456
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$498,323
Total liabilities, end of year
$66,504
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$431,819
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$711,145
Management and general expenses
$116,723
Fundraising expenses
$202,942
Program service expenses (Part III)
$711,145

Program services were 69.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $905,943

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $84,074

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Subscription Revenue

    total $456 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $48,000 · program services $28,800 · management and general $9,600 · fundraising $9,600

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $466,125 · program services $294,019 · management and general $41,504 · fundraising $130,602

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $38,218 · program services $23,997 · management and general $3,799 · fundraising $10,422

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $41,309 · program services $25,938 · management and general $4,106 · fundraising $11,265

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $2,803 · program services $0 · management and general $2,803 · fundraising $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $41,959 · program services $0 · management and general $41,959 · fundraising $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $154,510 · program services $154,510 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $6,220 · program services $1,755 · management and general $131 · fundraising $4,334

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $31,721 · program services $20,961 · management and general $2,889 · fundraising $7,871

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $83,774 · program services $52,602 · management and general $8,327 · fundraising $22,845

  • 17 · Travel

    total $56,866 · program services $54,216 · management and general $555 · fundraising $2,095

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $11,162 · program services $9,813 · management and general $0 · fundraising $1,349

  • 24a · Other expenses: Awards and Grants

    total $35,280 · program services $35,229 · management and general $14 · fundraising $37

  • 24b · Other expenses: Vehicle Expenses

    total $3,786 · program services $2,518 · management and general $339 · fundraising $929

  • 24c · Other expenses: Meals & Entertainment

    total $5,273 · program services $3,177 · management and general $503 · fundraising $1,593

  • 24d · Other expenses: Relocation

    total $3,804 · program services $3,610 · management and general $194 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $554,737 · end of year $439,011

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $20,000 · end of year $50,000

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    end of year $2,212

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    beginning of year $1,406 · end of year $1,702

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    end of year $5,398

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $19,913 · end of year $66,504

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $551,800 · end of year $431,819

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $4,430

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Generate knowledge and spark the involvement needed to energize activists, persuade skeptics, resist authoritarians, and foster a resilient global culture of free speech

  • 1) Polling and research, to measure global attitudes towards free speech and analyze whether common concerns and arguments used to justify restrictions of free speech are based on real or imagined harms. 2) Work to defend and strengthen existing standards needed to resist the global authoritarian deterioration of freedom of expression. 3) Outreach which provides activists, policymakers, adademics, and other critical stakeholders with the data, arguments and standards

    Expenses $711,145 · Revenue $456

As filed on the 2025 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Jacob Mchangama

    President

    Total calculated
    $288,122
    From this org
    $48,000
    From related orgs
    $240,122
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $48,000 + $240,122 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $48,000 + $240,122 related

  • Soren Johansen

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • John Seigenthaler

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Ashkhen Kazryan

    Employee

    Total calculated
    $138,549
    From this org
    $138,549
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $138,549
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $138,549

  • Justin Hayes

    Employee

    Total calculated
    $107,546
    From this org
    $107,546
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $107,546
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $107,546

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

None.

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
24 June 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.1
Source object
202631759349300118

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