Form 990 for tax year 2024
Filed by FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION.
This return was superseded by a later amendment. matched by us It is kept because history is preserved rather than replaced.
What the amendment changed
Compared with the latest return for 2024 , filed 16 January 2026. matched by us Only the return's totals, a 990-PF's accounting method and the names listed in Part VII (Part VIII on a 990-PF) are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.
Those are the same on the two returns, so the amendment changed something else.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $2,655,827
- Total expenses
- $5,535,340
- Contributions and grants received
- $2,631,137
- Grants paid
- $37,271
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $24,690
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $4,223,942
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $45,246
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $4,178,696
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $3,852,590
- Management and general expenses
- $1,326,344
- Fundraising expenses
- $356,406
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $3,852,590
Program services were 69.6% 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.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$2,631,137
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3 · Investment income
total $24,690 · excluded $24,690
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
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11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $37,271 · program services $37,271
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $1,082,535 · program services $811,901 · management and general $270,634
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $265,980 · program services $199,485 · management and general $66,495
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $0
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $38,139 · program services $28,604 · management and general $9,535
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11a · Fees: management
total $0
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11b · Fees: legal
total $0
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $125,600 · management and general $125,600
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
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11g · Fees: other
total $499,140 · program services $374,355 · management and general $124,785
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $1,782,030 · program services $1,069,218 · management and general $356,406 · fundraising $356,406
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13 · Office expenses
total $44,535 · program services $33,401 · management and general $11,134
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14 · Information technology
total $303,527 · program services $227,645 · management and general $75,882
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15 · Royalties
total $0
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16 · Occupancy
total $40,144 · program services $30,108 · management and general $10,036
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17 · Travel
total $219,344 · program services $164,508 · management and general $54,836
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18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0
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20 · Interest
total $0
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21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $186,981 · program services $140,236 · management and general $46,745
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23 · Insurance
total $18,358 · program services $4,880 · management and general $13,478
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24a · Other expenses: MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS
total $264,000 · program services $264,000
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24b · Other expenses: OPERATIONS EXPENSES
total $252,781 · program services $189,586 · management and general $63,195
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24c · Other expenses: BANK AND CC FEES
total $119,817 · program services $86,023 · management and general $33,794
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24d · Other expenses: TAXES
total $53,525 · program services $40,144 · management and general $13,381
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24e · All other expenses
total $201,633 · program services $151,225 · management and general $50,408
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $3,729,639 · end of year $699,736
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
end of year $0
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $191,031 · end of year $0
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4 · Accounts receivable
end of year $0
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5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
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6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
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7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
end of year $0
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$3,999,040
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$474,834
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $3,585,175 · end of year $3,524,206
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
end of year $0
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12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
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13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
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14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
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15 · Other assets
end of year $0
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $41,778 · end of year $45,246
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $7,464,067 · end of year $4,178,696
Mission and programs · 2024
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.
Activities or mission (Part I)
TO MAKE DISTRIBUTIONS EXCLUSIVELY FOR CHARITABLE, RELIGIOUS, EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES, WITH THE DISTRIBUTIONS GOING TO ORGANIZATIONS THAT QUALIFY AS TAX EXEMPT UNDER SECTION 501(C)(3) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.
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Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.
Expenses $3,852,590 · Grants $37,271
As filed on the 2024 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.
Listed in Part VII
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Dr SIMONE GOLD
President
- Total calculated
- $692,908
- From this org
- $692,908
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $692,908
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported
- Filer's total
- $692,908
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Lisa AlexanderLISA ALEXANDER
Exec. Dir./Sec
- Total calculated
- $204,000
- From this org
- $204,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $204,000
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported
- Filer's total
- $204,000
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Lisa AndrzejewskiLISA ANDRZEJEWSKI
Executive Dir.
- Total calculated
- $85,626
- From this org
- $85,626
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Richard MackRICHARD MACK
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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
- 1a · First-class or charter travel
- 1a · Travel for companions
- 1a · Discretionary spending account
- 1a · Housing allowance or residence for personal use
- 1a · Health or social club dues or initiation fees
- 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
- 3 · Compensation survey or study
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
Answered no
- 1b · Written policy on the line-1a expenses
- 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
The filer's explanations (Part III)
- Part I, Line 1a: Relevant information in regards to selections on 1a.
- Part I, Line 1b: Reason for not following policy regarding payment provisions for expenses
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.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 11 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202543159349302349
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