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SPEECH FIRST INC

EIN 82-3599047 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2025
$438,009
Expenses 2025
$1,307,344

Program services were 93.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R63
Classification
1200
Street
1300 I ST NW STE 400E

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 · 2025

Mission

SPEECH FIRST'S MISSION IS TO DEFEND STUDENTS WHO SEEK TO PROTECT THEIR RIGHTS TO FREE SPEECH, EXPRESSION OR ASSOCIATION. BY COMING TOGETHER, WE'VE CREATED A NATIONWIDE COMMUNITY OF FREE SPEECH SUPPORTERS TO REASSURE STUDENTS THAT THEY WON'T - Continued Schedule O

Activities or mission (Part I)

SPEECH FIRSTS MISSION IS TO DEFEND STUDENTS WHO SEEK TO PROTECT THEIR RIGHTS TO FREE SPEECH EXPRESSION OR ASSOCIATION BY COMING TOGETHER WEVE CREATED A NATIONWIDE COMMUNITY OF FREE SPEECH SUPPORTERS TO REASSURE STUDENTS THAT THEY WONT Continued Schedule O

  • Finalized open lawsuit against Indiana University and continued to litigate a Title IX case in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Produced a research paper on DEI in medical schools. Filed and publicized public records requests related to speech- silencing incidents on college campuses.

    Expenses $1,020,789

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Nicole Neily

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $19,345
    From this org
    $15,075
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,270
    Hours/week
    2

  • Josh Holdenried

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jamil Jaffer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kathryn Ciano Mauler

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Matthew Foldi

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Karen Harned

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kristina Rasmussen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $438,009
    Expenses
    $1,307,344
    Contributions
    $438,009
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,800,339
    Expenses
    $2,269,853
    Contributions
    $2,800,339
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,596,032
    Expenses
    $2,399,427
    Contributions
    $2,596,032
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,325,417
    Expenses
    $2,152,448
    Contributions
    $2,325,417
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $2,272,281
    Expenses
    $2,281,390
    Assets (EOY)
    $350,578

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,272,281
    Expenses
    $2,281,390
    Assets (EOY)
    $350,578

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,294,011
    Expenses
    $1,671,802
    Assets (EOY)
    $360,527

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,262,640
    Expenses
    $1,556,841
    Assets (EOY)
    $37,867

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,253,461
    Expenses
    $1,476,793
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,993

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.