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← AMERICAN COMPASS INC

Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by AMERICAN COMPASS INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,635,737
Total expenses
$2,235,395
Contributions and grants received
$2,619,896
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$9,847
Other revenue
$5,994
Total assets, end of year
$1,873,295
Total liabilities, end of year
$86,884
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,786,411
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,896,027
Management and general expenses
$255,490
Fundraising expenses
$83,878
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,896,027

Program services were 84.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Listed in Part VII

  • Oren Cass

    Chief Economist, Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $329,559
    From this org
    $275,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $54,559
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $250,000
    Bonus
    $25,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $27,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,059
    Filer's total
    $329,559

  • David Azerrad

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jonathan Baron

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Julius Krein

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Lighthizer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Needham

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Neil Patel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Abigail Ball

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $197,005
    From this org
    $175,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,005
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $160,000
    Bonus
    $15,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $16,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,505
    Filer's total
    $197,005

  • Chris Griswold

    Policy Director

    Total calculated
    $212,447
    From this org
    $192,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,947
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $175,000
    Bonus
    $17,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $19,250
    Nontaxable benefits
    $697
    Filer's total
    $212,447

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 committee
  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments

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
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

Part I, Line 7
The organization's chief economist, executive director, and policy director received discretionary bonuses which are included in their reportable compensation.

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

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
16 October 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202532909349300813

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