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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT.

Totals

Total revenue
$50,078,828
Total expenses
$48,608,231
Contributions and grants received
$49,156,174
Grants paid
$46,903,090
Program service revenue
$817,937
Investment income
$104,717
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$4,993,683
Total liabilities, end of year
$562,027
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$4,431,656
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$48,210,581
Management and general expenses
$295,629
Fundraising expenses
$102,021
Program service expenses (Part III)
$48,210,581

Program services were 99.2% 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

    $49,156,174

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $60,438

  • 2a · Program service revenue: FISCAL SPONSORSHIP FEES

    total $817,937 · related or exempt $817,937

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $104,747 · excluded $104,747

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $693

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $723

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities -$30

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total -$30 · excluded -$30

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $46,903,090 · program services $46,903,090

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $403,484 · program services $300,071 · management and general $36,040 · fundraising $67,373

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $261,269 · program services $131,488 · management and general $129,781

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $12,365 · program services $7,552 · management and general $4,813

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $129,589 · program services $84,085 · management and general $32,625 · fundraising $12,879

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $6,219 · management and general $6,219

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $45,073 · management and general $45,073

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $425,621 · program services $399,702 · management and general $25,919

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $54,905 · program services $44,591 · management and general $10,314

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $7,419 · program services $6,664 · management and general $755

  • 17 · Travel

    total $28,834 · program services $22,591 · management and general $2,811 · fundraising $3,432

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $303,425 · program services $303,021 · management and general $404

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $7,208 · program services $6,475 · management and general $733

  • 24a · Other expenses: REGISTRATION EXPENSE

    total $18,337 · fundraising $18,337

  • 24b · Other expenses: DUES AND SUBSCRIPTIONS

    total $1,393 · program services $1,251 · management and general $142

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $1,652,177 · end of year $308,550

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $3,068,773

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $1,432,548 · end of year $1,616,360

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $31,709

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $2,884

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $139,050 · end of year $562,027

  • 18 · Grants payable

    beginning of year $19,209

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $678,165 · end of year $428,326

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $2,282,894 · end of year $4,003,330

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT DEDICATES ITSELF TO SERVING THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND POLICY MAKERS REGARDING THE NEED TO ITERATIVELY IMPROVE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY BY ENCOURAGING INCREASED CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN ELECTIONS AND POLICY-MAKING, AS WELL AS MORE RESPONSIVE GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS AT THE LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL LEVELS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SDP SEEKS TO IMPROVE DEMOCRACY BY ENCOURAGING CITIZEN PARTICIPATION.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $48,210,581 · Grants $46,903,090 · Revenue $817,937

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

  • Tamara Brummer

    CHAIR & SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dan Cantor

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Rajan Narang

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Nora Ranney

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Asa Shaw

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Yong Jung Cho

    ED OF SDP'S BPRC PROJECT

    Total calculated
    $179,730
    From this org
    $170,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,730
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $170,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,730
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $179,730

  • Miles Rapoport As Of April

    DEM PROJECT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $133,654
    From this org
    $133,654
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Beth Schulman

    SDP DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $90,100
    From this org
    $85,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,100
    Hours/week
    30

  • Raaheela Ahmed As Of March

    DEM PROJECT NATIONAL LEG/ORG DIR.

    Total calculated
    $119,641
    From this org
    $112,891
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,750
    Hours/week
    35

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
14 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202543189349311229

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