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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by CENTER FOR AMERICAN GREATNESS INC.

This return was superseded by a later amendment. matched by us It is kept because history is preserved rather than replaced.

What the amendment changed

Compared with the latest return for 2024 , filed 17 November 2025. matched by us Only the return's totals, a 990-PF's accounting method and the names listed in Part VII (Part VIII on a 990-PF) are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.

Those are the same on the two returns, so the amendment changed something else.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,685,257
Total expenses
$1,092,339
Contributions and grants received
$1,682,006
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$3,251
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$1,374,603
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,374,603
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,052,625
Management and general expenses
$39,714
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$815,001

Program services were 96.4% 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

    $1,682,006

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $3,251 · related or exempt $3,251

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $128,125 · program services $128,125

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $30,792 · program services $30,792

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $13,895 · management and general $13,895

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $12,819 · management and general $12,819

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $1,000 · management and general $1,000

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $639,107 · program services $639,107

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $249,632 · program services $249,632

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $12,000 · management and general $12,000

  • 17 · Travel

    total $4,969 · program services $4,969

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $800,063 · end of year $448,158

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $856,251

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $70,194

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $18,378

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $781,685 · end of year $1,374,603

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Defend the principles of limited, constitutional government based on the consent of the governed and of the American constitutional order as the best means for securing the rights inherent to all mankind.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Defend the principles of limited constitutional government based on the consent of the governed and of the American constitutional order as the best means for securing the rights inherent to all mankind

  • The Center for American Greatness (CAG) produced a number of papers and articles, and sponsored events for the public,journalists, scholars, and academics that discussed civic responsibility and the role of the citizen in a self-governing society, American constitutionalism, and the foundation of civil rights and civil society. CAG also provided a fellowship program for young people to learn more about American history and the maintenance of civil society.

    Expenses $815,001

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Christopher Buskirk

    DirectorPresident

    Total calculated
    $138,875
    From this org
    $128,125
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,750
    Hours/week
    40

  • J Eric E Wise

    DirectorSecretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ned Ryun

    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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
14 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202523199349300007

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