Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$5,496,155

Total expenses

$7,753,629

Contributions and grants received

$4,808,826

Grants paid

$561,110

Program service revenue

$629,055

Investment income

$47,695

Other revenue

$10,579

Total assets, end of year

$6,627,073

Total liabilities, end of year

$5,209,261

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,417,812

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$4,914,816

Management and general expenses

$2,057,172

Fundraising expenses

$781,641

Program service expenses (Part III)

$4,914,816

Program services were 63.4% 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.

Mission and programs · 2023

• Education and Communications: Represent.Us Education Fund elevates the national dialogue on democratic reform by taking complex ideas and presenting them in a way that resonates with diverse audiences. The Organization works through various mediums to communicate with democracy reform groups, academics, activists, and influencers from across the political spectrum. The Organization is driven by the goal to create a collaborative network for the movement by bringing together passionate activists and advocates and creating opportunities to learn, share ideas, get inspired, and forge lasting relationships.

  Expenses $3,009,432 · Grants $50,000

• Grantmaking: RepresentUs Education Fund made grants to Represent.Us to support public education, research, and cross-partisan outreach activities. Grant funds were used to develop multi-channel public-education campaigns to inform voters about the challenges faced by our democracy and on viable policy solutions. Funds were also used to promote educational content about popular, smart political reforms; to produce compelling videos; and to provide of-the-moment communications on news items impacting our democracy. Grantmaking also underwrote the recruitment and training of volunteers.

  Expenses $511,110 · Grants $511,110

• Research and Planning: Represent.Us Education Fund conducts in-depth research related to campaign-finance and electoral-systems reform. Ongoing research aims to measure, track, and evaluate the impact of public policy on state and local communities.

  Expenses $11,362

• Other projects: The Organization conducts various projects to promote equality, ethics and transparency in elections and governments.

  Expenses $1,382,912 · Revenue $639,634

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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

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

• RepresentUs

  $511,110

  Education and Communicaiton

• Democracy Maine

  $15,000

  General Support

• The Center for Civic Alternatives

  $15,000

  General Support

• Voter Choice Arizona

  $10,000

  General Support

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• RepresentUs

  501(c)(4) · Social Welfare and Advocacy · DC

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

19 August 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

202422339349300202

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