a question of whether the governors of an institution would choose to associate with a particular wealthy donor.

Not quite. My reading is that Gottfredson was explicitly prohibited from accepting funding coming from the Pioneer Fund.

I agree that this is not true silencing, but I do not wish to defend the title of the article, anyway. It's just a result of a quick Google search for "consequences" to holding, um, non-mainstream views on race and intelligence.

Here is another example.