Totals
- Total revenue
- $7,198,949
- Total expenses
- $6,611,380
- Contributions and grants received
- $6,899,300
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $299,649
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $9,326,220
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $295,017
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $9,031,203
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $5,197,755
- Management and general expenses
- $1,075,370
- Fundraising expenses
- $338,255
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $5,197,755
Program services were 78.6% 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
$2,482,692
-
1c · Fundraising events
$0
-
1d · Related organizations
$0
-
1e · Government grants (contributions)
$0
-
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$4,416,608
-
1g · Noncash contributions included above
$167,039
-
3 · Investment income
total $299,649 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $299,649
-
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
-
7c · Gain or loss
securities $0 · other assets $0
-
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 $2,516,681 · program services $2,516,681
-
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $484,508 · program services $212,480 · management and general $199,352 · fundraising $72,676
-
6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
-
7 · Other salaries and wages
total $1,480,724 · program services $964,991 · management and general $375,029 · fundraising $140,704
-
9 · Other employee benefits
total $438,833 · program services $290,118 · management and general $104,832 · fundraising $43,883
-
10 · Payroll taxes
total $142,309 · program services $94,082 · management and general $33,996 · fundraising $14,231
-
11a · Fees: management
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $78,430 · program services $0 · management and general $78,430 · 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 $38,782 · program services $0 · management and general $38,782 · fundraising $0
-
12 · Advertising and promotion
total $47,338 · program services $23,084 · management and general $1,170 · fundraising $23,084
-
13 · Office expenses
total $263,926 · program services $78,464 · management and general $173,593 · fundraising $11,869
-
14 · Information technology
total $765,184 · program services $765,184 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
-
15 · Royalties
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $96,498 · program services $63,796 · management and general $23,052 · fundraising $9,650
-
17 · Travel
total $106,911 · program services $70,680 · management and general $25,540 · fundraising $10,691
-
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $45,868 · program services $34,401 · management and general $0 · fundraising $11,467
-
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 $83,794 · program services $83,794 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
-
23 · Insurance
total $21,594 · program services $0 · management and general $21,594 · 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 $630,318 · end of year $974,412
-
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $5,705,614 · end of year $5,491,788
-
10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$598,905
-
10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$131,926
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $109,968 · end of year $466,979
-
12 · Investments: other securities
beginning of year $2,140,984 · end of year $2,321,482
-
15 · Other assets
beginning of year $39,329 · end of year $71,559
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $237,832 · end of year $295,017
-
29 · Capital stock, trust principal or current funds
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
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 $8,388,381 · end of year $9,031,203
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
The Calyx Institute's purposes are 1) to develop the best practices standards for privacy, security and free speech in the telecommunications industry and on the Internet; and 2) Educating the general public and service providers on privacy, security and free speech practices.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Developing, researching, testing and implementing privacy technology and tools to promote free speach, free expression, civic engagement and privacy rights on the Internet and in the Mobile telephone industry.
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Education and research focused on studying, testing and developing and implementing privacy technology and tools to promote free speech, free expression, civic engagement and and privacy rights on the Internet and in the Mobile telephone industry.
Expenses $5,197,755
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part VII
-
Nicholas Merrill
President
- Total calculated
- $255,672
- From this org
- $186,111
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $69,561
- Hours/week
- 32
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $186,111
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $69,561
- Filer's total
- $255,672
-
Eric Bortel
Engineering Director
- Total calculated
- $254,825
- From this org
- $185,864
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $68,961
- Hours/week
- 32
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $185,864
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $68,961
- Filer's total
- $254,825
-
Ellen McDermott
Interim Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $218,887
- From this org
- $200,907
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $17,980
- Hours/week
- 32
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $200,907
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $17,980
- Filer's total
- $218,887
-
Benjamin Knauss
Finance Director
- Total calculated
- $185,601
- From this org
- $129,663
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $55,938
- Hours/week
- 32
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $129,663
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $55,938
- Filer's total
- $185,601
-
Amy Colburn
Project Manager for Technical Programs
- Total calculated
- $179,082
- From this org
- $148,607
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $30,475
- Hours/week
- 32
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $148,607
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $30,475
- Filer's total
- $179,082
-
Ashi Krishnan
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Liz O'Sullivan
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Carey Shenkman
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kobi Snitz
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 · Compensation committee
- 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
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Taxable family on this return
Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.
Disregarded entities
Part I: entities that legally are the filer and file no return of their own.
-
Calyx Holdings LLC
Housing IT infrastructure · WA · income $0 · assets $0
-
Calyx Networks LLC
Housing IT infrastructure · WA · income $0 · assets $0
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 15 March 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.0
- Source object
- 202610759349300776
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