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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by Consumers Defense.

Totals

Total revenue
$530,000
Total expenses
$502,506
Contributions and grants received
$530,000
Grants paid
$137,000
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$50,197
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$50,197
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$464,068
Management and general expenses
$38,438
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$464,068

Program services were 92.4% 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

    $530,000

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $137,000 · program services $137,000

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $280,798 · program services $268,798 · management and general $12,000

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $19,671 · management and general $19,671

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $7,300 · program services $7,300

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $25,000 · program services $25,000

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $6,767 · management and general $6,767

  • 17 · Travel

    total $25,970 · program services $25,970

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $22,703 · end of year $50,197

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $22,703 · end of year $50,197

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Consumers' Defense is a 501c4 nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase the knowledge and understanding of issues, policies, products, and services of concern to consumers and to promote the freedom to act on that knowledge and understanding.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Consumers Defense is a 501c4 nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase the knowledge and understanding of issues policies products and services of concern to consumers and to promote the freedom to act on that knowledge and understanding

  • The organization engaged in educational efforts including maintaining a website to educate the public, maintaining an ESG Legislation tracker, drafting and sharing model legislation, presenting inform- tion at conferences, conducting meetings with state legislators, and grant making to other organizations.

    Expenses $464,068 · Grants $137,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Salvatore Nuzzo

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $187,500
    From this org
    $187,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $187,500
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $187,500

  • Will Hild

    PresTreasDir

    Total calculated
    $81,298
    From this org
    $81,298
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Keith Lamphier

    SecretaryDirector

    Total calculated
    $6,000
    From this org
    $6,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alexander McCobin

    Vice PresDirector

    Total calculated
    $6,000
    From this org
    $6,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $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 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

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
1 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202513059349300311

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