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← OPENSECRETS

Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by OPENSECRETS.

Totals

Total revenue
$4,281,039
Total expenses
$3,374,050
Contributions and grants received
$3,605,153
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$581,044
Investment income
$94,842
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$3,784,727
Total liabilities, end of year
$260,677
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$3,524,050
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$2,642,925
Management and general expenses
$368,768
Fundraising expenses
$362,357
Program service expenses (Part III)
$2,642,925

Program services were 78.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Listed in Part VII

  • Hilary Braseth

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $235,284
    From this org
    $222,497
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,787
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us · ignoring case and punctuation

    Base
    $216,497
    Bonus
    $6,000
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $4,450
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,337
    Filer's total
    $235,284

  • Jacob Hileman

    IT Director

    Total calculated
    $168,002
    From this org
    $155,865
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,137
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us · ignoring case and punctuation

    Base
    $154,865
    Bonus
    $1,000
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $3,117
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,020
    Filer's total
    $168,002

  • Victoria Sorg

    Director of Revenue & Ext

    Total calculated
    $152,244
    From this org
    $125,436
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,808
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us · ignoring case and punctuation

    Base
    $124,436
    Bonus
    $1,000
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $2,509
    Nontaxable benefits
    $24,299
    Filer's total
    $152,244

  • Brendan Glavin

    Director of Insights

    Total calculated
    $132,765
    From this org
    $115,127
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,638
    Hours/week
    40

  • David Meyers

    Director of Editorial & Strategy

    Total calculated
    $128,487
    From this org
    $125,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,487
    Hours/week
    40

  • Nekole Brandis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Keri Dogan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Daniel Doktori

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Mark Hansen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Jenkins

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeff Malachowsky

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Malbin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jodeen Olgun-Tayler

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Geri Palast

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ann Ravel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jennifer Victor

    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. 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

  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 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)

Related organization compensation method (Part I, line 3)
The Board of Directors approves The Executive Director's compensation when executive compensation information from non profitorganizations that are compensated employees is also approved by The Board of Directors based on preparing OPENSECRETS'annual budget. The Board of Directors reviews similar in size and mission to OPENSECRETS. The compensation for highlyrecommendations made by The Executive Director.

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
2025
Filed
15 July 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.2
Source object
202631979349301803

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