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Form 990-PF for tax year 2024

Filed by DEMOCRACY FUND INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$63,960,855
Total expenses
$61,588,535
Contributions and grants received
$63,363,700
Contributions, gifts and grants paid
$37,719,319
Fair market value of assets, end of year
$15,845,796

Listed in Part VIII

  • Patricia Christen

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.46
  • Joseph Goldman

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $575,366
    Compensation
    $520,858
    Benefit plans
    $54,508
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    28
  • Deepa Isac

    General Counsel & Secretary

    Total calculated
    $350,495
    Compensation
    $311,569
    Benefit plans
    $38,926
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    36
  • Robin Thompson

    Treasurer & Senior Director of Finance

    Total calculated
    $274,835
    Compensation
    $240,688
    Benefit plans
    $34,147
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    36
  • Danielle Allen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $20,000
    Compensation
    $20,000
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Crystal Hayling

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Deepak Bhargava

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

Compensation is as filed in Part VIII of the Form 990-PF: 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 paid on this return

Grants paid, cash basis (Part I, line 25, column (d))
$49,066,416
As filed, and sometimes filed as 0.
Grants paid, Part XV total (line 3a)
$49,167,017
The foundation's own total of the grants it itemizes.

These are the grants the foundation paid during the year. The “Contributions, gifts and grants paid” total above is the figure on the foundation's books. This return marks the accrual method, under which a grant is recorded when the foundation commits to it rather than when it pays, so the books total need not agree with the cash figures in this section: a grant promised one year and paid in another is counted in different years.

  • New Venture Fund

    $1,500,000

    Washington, DC

    Program support for Trusted Elections Fund

  • Solutions Project Inc

    $1,500,000

    Oakland, CA

    Program support to advance climate and migrant justice

  • Borealis Philanthropy

    $1,020,000

    Minneapolis, MN

    Program support for the Racial Equity in Journalism Fund

  • JustFundUs

    $934,000

    Oakland, CA

    Program support for Building Power Fund

  • Hopewell Fund

    $750,000

    Washington, DC

    Program Support for Free Election Fund

  • The Project on Government Oversight Inc

    $750,000

    Washington, DC

    General support

  • New Venture Fund

    $720,000

    Washington, DC

    Program support for Future Currents

  • Democracy Forward Foundation

    $700,000

    Washington, DC

    General support

  • Free Press

    $700,000

    Washington, DC

    General support

  • Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

    $600,000

    Washington, DC

    General support

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Provenance

Return type
form_990_pf
Tax year
2024
Filed
14 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202503189349101720

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