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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by DEMOCRACY SENTRY.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,150,000
Total expenses
$2,623,859
Contributions and grants received
$1,150,000
Grants paid
$170,000
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$31,434
Total liabilities, end of year
$581
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$30,853
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$2,251,925
Management and general expenses
$369,977
Fundraising expenses
$1,957
Program service expenses (Part III)
$2,251,925

Program services were 85.8% 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.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,150,000

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $170,000 · program services $170,000

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $165,588 · management and general $165,588

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $63,072 · management and general $63,072

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $1,892 · management and general $1,892

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $19,490 · management and general $19,490

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $39,618 · management and general $39,618

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $31,775 · management and general $31,775

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $937,823 · program services $908,750 · management and general $29,073

  • 17 · Travel

    total $19,052 · program services $17,294 · fundraising $1,758

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $13,103 · management and general $13,103

  • 24a · Other expenses: PROGRAM EXPENSES

    total $1,153,850 · program services $1,153,850

  • 24b · Other expenses: MEALS EXPENSE

    total $2,326 · program services $2,031 · management and general $96 · fundraising $199

  • 24c · Other expenses: REGISTRATION FEES

    total $1,976 · management and general $1,976

  • 24d · Other expenses: PRINTING & COPYING

    total $1,919 · management and general $1,919

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $2,375 · management and general $2,375

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $1,504,935 · end of year $31,434

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $223 · end of year $581

  • 29 · Capital stock, trust principal or current funds

    beginning of year $1,504,712 · end of year $30,853

  • 30 · Paid-in or capital surplus, or land, building or equipment fund

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

FURTHER THE COMMON GOOD AND GENERAL WELFARE OF THE COMMUNITY BY ADVOCATING FOR PRO-DEMOCRACY FEDERAL POLICIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

DEMOCRACY SENTRY FURTHERS THE COMMON GOOD AND GENERAL WELFARE OF THE COMMUNITY BY ADVOCATING FOR PRO-DEMOCRACY FEDERAL POLICIES.

  • EXECUTE ISSUE ADVOCACY CAMPAIGNS IN 5 STATES.

    Expenses $1,171,342

  • LEAD A FEDERAL ADVOCACY CAMPAIGN WITH FEDERAL POLICYMAKERS.

    Expenses $1,080,583 · Grants $170,000

  • PROTECT THE RIGHT TO VOTE.

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Tom Sheridan

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Patti Solis Doyle

    CHAIR OF BOARD

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Jackie Quinones

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Christopher Scott Fay

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $165,588
    From this org
    $165,588
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $165,588
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $165,588

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 · Compensation survey or study
  • 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

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
14 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202523189349300512

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