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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by OBSERVER RESEARCH FOUNDATION AMERICA.

This return was superseded by a later amendment.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 12 August 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.

Total revenue
$4,301,517 changed to $629,266
Total expenses
$2,830,663 changed to $578,295
Contributions and grants received
$4,301,517 changed to $629,266
Total assets, end of year
$2,646,979 changed to $2,683,739
Total liabilities, end of year
$435,587 changed to $421,376
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$2,211,392 changed to $2,262,363
Program services expenses
$1,970,658 changed to $386,068
Management and general expenses
$815,246 changed to $186,160
Fundraising expenses
$44,759 changed to $6,067
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,970,658 changed to $386,068

Listed only on the earlier return

  • Carl Bildt
  • David Victor
  • Jane Holl Lute
  • Marise Payne

Totals

Total revenue
$4,301,517
Total expenses
$2,830,663
Contributions and grants received
$4,301,517
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$2,646,979
Total liabilities, end of year
$435,587
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$2,211,392
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,970,658
Management and general expenses
$815,246
Fundraising expenses
$44,759
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,970,658

Program services were 69.6% 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

    $4,301,517

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $0

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $443,521 · program services $306,029 · management and general $137,492

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $982,714 · program services $678,073 · management and general $304,641

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $16,606 · program services $11,458 · management and general $5,148

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $125,409 · program services $86,532 · management and general $38,877

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $110,046 · program services $75,932 · management and general $34,114

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $32,657 · management and general $32,657

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $34,291 · management and general $34,291

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $3,317 · program services $1,028 · management and general $2,123 · fundraising $166

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $16,450 · program services $4,508 · management and general $11,349 · fundraising $593

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $21,888 · program services $6,786 · management and general $14,008 · fundraising $1,094

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $197,495 · program services $75,048 · management and general $112,572 · fundraising $9,875

  • 17 · Travel

    total $0

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $12,823 · management and general $12,823

  • 24a · Other expenses: PROJECT COST

    total $660,627 · program services $574,746 · management and general $52,850 · fundraising $33,031

  • 24b · Other expenses: CONTRACTORS

    total $121,100 · program services $118,678 · management and general $2,422

  • 24c · Other expenses: RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

    total $42,191 · program services $27,846 · management and general $14,345

  • 24d · Other expenses: BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

    total $9,528 · program services $3,994 · management and general $5,534

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $470,798 · end of year $300,640

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $315,611 · end of year $1,915,879

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $575,488 · end of year $430,460

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $44,305 · end of year $21,617

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $577,054 · end of year $413,970

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $149,384 · end of year $115,727

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $591,154 · end of year $2,095,665

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

SEE SCHEDULE O

  • SEE SCHEDULE O

    Expenses $1,970,658

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Dhruva Jaishankar

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $246,971
    From this org
    $219,311
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,660
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $219,311
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $4,503
    Nontaxable benefits
    $23,157
    Filer's total
    $246,971

  • Sharon Stirling

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $196,550
    From this org
    $176,825
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,725
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $176,825
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $10,667
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,058
    Filer's total
    $196,550

  • Samir Saran

    CHAIR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carl Bildt

    CHAIR BUDGET /AUDIT COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marise Payne

    CHAIR OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mathew Oommen

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Victor

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sunjoy Joshi

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jane Holl Lute

    CO-CHAIR

    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. 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 · 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

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
24 June 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202521759349301332

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