Totals
- Total revenue
- $91
- Total expenses
- $6,898
- Contributions and grants received
- not reported
- Grants paid
- not reported
- Program service revenue
- not reported
- Membership dues (line 3)
- not reported
- Investment income (line 4)
- $91
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- not reported
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- not reported
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- not reported
- Other revenue (line 8)
- not reported
- Total assets, end of year
- $47,603
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $47,603
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $5,124
Program services were 74.3% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2024
Primary exempt purpose
Respect America, Inc. is a grassroots educational organization operated exclusively for social welfare and advocacy purposes. Specifically, Respect America, Inc. seeks solutions to social issues through cooperative and community problem solving among diverse individuals by advocating the Philosophy of Human Respect.The Philosophy of Human Respect includes fundamental social principles that drive human happiness, harmony, and prosperity. These social principles include: Human beings have an innate drive toward greater flourishing, happiness, and life satisfaction. Physical harm to a person always decreases his or her opportunity to flourish, to achieve happiness and life satisfaction. Stealing a person's property always decreases his or her happiness and life satisfaction.
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Education: Ongoing educational awareness campaigns and the dissemination of information through print and digital online content, including a variety of media sources, social media platforms, video, email, newsletters, and websites.
Expenses $5,124
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Grassroots engagement: Advocacy efforts to improve the social welfare of the community, which includes the support of or opposition to certain policy and legislation efforts. Informing the general public about the status of and threats to decreasing Human Respect by the political system and encouraging the community to petition, call, email, write, and show up to pass or defeat certain legislation.
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part IV
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Chris Rufer
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Emily Henkel
Treasurer and Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Michael Sertic
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Hannah Henriksen
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, 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.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990_ez
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 10 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202533149349202768
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