Foundation For Individual Rights And Expression Inc

Philadelphia, PA · EIN 043467254 · Censorship, Freedom of Speech and Press Issues · IRS code R63

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Their finances

from their own IRS Form 990, fiscal year 2025
Total revenue
$40M
$40,016,763
From donations
91%
$36M of revenue
Highest reported salary
$622K
GREGORY LUKIANOFF
Spending breakdown — and why we do not lead with it
Spent on programmes
80%
$24M of $30M spent

A high figure here is not straightforwardly good. The measure counts money spent on programmes against money spent running the organisation, so it rewards charities that under-invest in staff, systems and evaluation — and it can be moved by accounting choices rather than by doing more. The largest charity raters publicly abandoned it as a headline measure for exactly that reason. It is here because it is on the filing and people look for it, not because we think it tells you who to give to.

Employees
162
Volunteers
17
Total spending
$30M
Staff costs
$18M

No comparison shown. We list only 1 charity under this cause with a filing, which is too few to rank against meaningfully. A percentile drawn from a handful of organisations looks precise and means nothing.

Figures are as the organisation reported them to the IRS. We do not adjust, score or rate them, and we do not combine them into a single number — that would require deciding how much each one matters, which is your judgement to make, not ours.

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Against every Censorship, Freedom of Speech and Press Issues charity in the country

50 filed under IRS code R63 in 2025
From donations
91%
higher than 36% of them
median 98%
Spent on programmes
80%
higher than 64% of them
median 74%
Highest salary
$622K
higher than 98% of them
median $48K

A percentile here is a position among charities the IRS classifies the same way — it is not a score, and being lower is not automatically worse. A large organisation running its own veterinary hospitals will spend a different share on programmes than one that passes grants through, and both are doing their job.

The IRS registry lists this organisation’s revenue as $62M, while their most recent filing shows $40M. The registry figure is not always the latest year; the filing above is the one we show.