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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by GLOBAL ACTION ON GUN VIOLENCE INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,151,570
Total expenses
$476,408
Contributions and grants received
$896,848
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$250,000
Investment income
$4,722
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$744,456
Total liabilities, end of year
$23,907
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$720,549
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$390,441
Management and general expenses
$39,429
Fundraising expenses
$46,538
Program service expenses (Part III)
$390,441

Program services were 82.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $0

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $0

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $0

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $0

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $0

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $896,848

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $29,649

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Consulting

    total $250,000 · related or exempt $250,000 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2f · All other program service revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $4,621 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $4,621

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $29,751 · other assets $0

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $29,650 · other assets $0

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $101 · other assets $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $101 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $101

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $310,520 · program services $306,897 · management and general $3,623 · fundraising $0

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $135,195 · program services $56,566 · management and general $34,940 · fundraising $43,689

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $16,555 · program services $12,840 · management and general $866 · fundraising $2,849

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 17 · Travel

    total $11,044 · program services $11,044 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $3,094 · program services $3,094 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $50,387 · end of year $135,089

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    end of year $75,000

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    end of year $534,367

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $5,000 · end of year $23,907

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    end of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $45,387 · end of year $720,549

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Global Action on Gun Violence (GAGV) is the only U.S.-based non-profit organization working with and for the international community to prevent gun violence, using litigation, policy advocacy, and a focus on reforming dangerous gun industry practices to stop cross-border gun trafficking and reduce gun deaths and injuries.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Global Action on Gun Violence is the only organization working with countries and people around the world to reduce the global harm from guns by using litigation and human rights strategies to reform dangerous gun industry practices.

  • GAGV provides a litigation program which brings lawsuits and serves as counsel or co-counsel in U.S. courts and in international human rights courts or commissions in order to reform the US based gun industry or defend sensible gun control laws. GAGV provides legal, advisory, educational and research services designed to broaden and implement gun violence prevention strategies to the U.S and international community with a focus on stopping crime guns at their U.S. source.

    Expenses $390,441

  • None only have one program

  • None only had one program

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Jonathan Lowy

    President/Founder

    Total calculated
    $250,000
    From this org
    $250,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $250,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $250,000

  • Elizabeth Burke

    Chief Operating Officer

    Total calculated
    $100,000
    From this org
    $100,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Lisa M Proctor

    Chief Finance Officer

    Total calculated
    $30,890
    From this org
    $30,890
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Mary Ester

    Chief Development Officer

    Total calculated
    $29,650
    From this org
    $29,650
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Dennis Henigan

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alan Bennett

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Susan Sajadi

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mike Parker

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kiyoshi Tsuru

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sherialyn Byrdson

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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 · Written employment contract
  • 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

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
2023
Filed
1 May 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.0
Source object
202431799349300843

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