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SCHOLARS AT RISK INC

EIN 82-2385660 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2024
$6,523,079
Expenses 2024
$4,304,838

Program services were 81.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q70
Classification
1200
Street
411 LAFAYETTE ST 3RD FLOOR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

SCHOLARS AT RISK (SAR) IS AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF INSTITUTIONS AND INDIVIDUALS WHOSE MISSION IT IS TO PROTECT SCHOLARS, PROMOTE ACADEMIC FREEDOM, AND DEFEND EVERYONE'S FREEDOM TO THINK, QUESTION AND SHARE IDEAS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SCHOLARS AT RISK (SAR) IS AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF INSTITUTIONS AND INDIVIDUALS WHOSE MISSION IT IS TO PROTECT SCHOLARS, PROMOTE ACADEMIC FREEDOM, AND DEFEND EVERYONE'S FREEDOM TO THINK, QUESTION AND SHARE IDEAS. BY ARRANGING TEMPORARY ACADEMIC POSITIONS AT MEMBER UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES, SCHOLARS AT RISK OFFERS SAFETY TO SCHOLARS FACING GRAVE THREATS, SO SCHOLARS' IDEAS ARE NOT LOST AND THEY CAN KEEP WORKING UNTIL CONDITIONS IMPROVE AND THEY ARE ABLE TO RETURN TO THEIR HOME COUNTRIES.SCHOLARS AT RISK ALSO PROVIDES ADVISORY SERVICES FOR SCHOLARS AND HOSTS, CAMPAIGNS FOR SCHOLARS WHO ARE IMPRISONED OR SILENCED IN THEIR HOME COUNTRIES, MONITORING OF ATTACKS ON HIGHER EDUCATION COMMUNITIES WORLDWIDE, AND LEADERSHIP IN DEPLOYING NEW TOOLS AND STRATEGIES FOR PROMOTING ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND IMPROVING RESPECT FOR UNIVERSITY VALUES EVERYWHERE.

  • THE SCHOLARS AT RISK NETWORK (SAR) INCLUDES OVER 600 HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN 50+ COUNTRIES IN ADDITION TO REGIONAL COALITIONS IN AFRICA, THE AMERICAS, AND SOUTHEAST ASIA. OVER THE PAST 25 YEARS, SAR HAS CREATED THOUSANDS OF LIFE-SAVING ACADEMIC PLACEMENTS FOR THREATENED SCHOLARS AND LEVERAGED MORE THAN $65 MILLION FROM UNIVERSITIES TO HELP THEM CONTINUE THEIR WORK IN SAFETY. SAR'S ACADEMIC FREEDOM MONITORING PROJECT HAS DOCUMENTED THOUSANDS OF ATTACKS ON SCHOLARS AND UNIVERSITIES, SHINING LIGHT ON A GLOBAL PATTERN AND URGING THOSE WITH POWER TO INCREASE PROTECTIONS AND HOLD VIOLATORS ACCOUNTABLE. THROUGH STUDENT SEMINARS AROUND THE WORLD, SAR HAS HELPED TO TRAIN A GENERATION OF FUTURE ADVOCATES, AND ITS ADVOCACY WITH THE UN AND OTHER INTERGOVERNMENTAL BODIES IS ADVANCING THE RECOGNITION OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM AS A UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHT.

    Expenses $3,500,619 · Grants $1,118,986

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Lisa Anderson

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Lance Liebman

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Matthew Nimetz

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Adam Falk

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alfred Babo

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Catharine Stimpson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Charles Harkless

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Daniel Naujoks

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Diana Wagner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gilbert Merkx

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Halil Yenigun

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Isabel Roche

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jan Krukowski

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jonathan Fanton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jonathan Levitsky

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jorge Sanchez Cordero

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joy Connolly

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Katarzyna Kaczmarska

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Katherine Precht

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Kunichika

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rosalie Wolf

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Timothy Gladden

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Quinn

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    60

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,523,079
    Expenses
    $4,304,838
    Contributions
    $6,087,440
    Grants paid
    $1,118,986
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,547,824
    Expenses
    $3,668,672
    Contributions
    $2,499,838
    Grants paid
    $669,759
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,430,922
    Expenses
    $3,218,885
    Contributions
    $5,291,359
    Grants paid
    $309,123

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,948,609
    Expenses
    $2,830,598
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,535,896

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,962,965
    Expenses
    $2,089,023
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,344,113

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,168,094
    Expenses
    $1,891,520
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,467,948

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,637,281
    Expenses
    $1,957,910
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,239,008

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,409,031
    Expenses
    $1,951,538
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,563,028

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.