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← DEFENDING EDUCATION

Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by DEFENDING EDUCATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$6,635,388
Total expenses
$6,279,870
Contributions and grants received
$6,578,037
Grants paid
$15,000
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$4,544,688
Management and general expenses
$891,234
Fundraising expenses
$843,948
Program service expenses (Part III)
$4,544,688

Program services were 72.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Listed in Part VII

  • NICOLE NEILY

    PRESIDENT SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $401,700
    From this org
    $390,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,700
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $390,000
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $11,700
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $401,700

  • SARAH PERRY

    VP and Legal Fellow

    Total calculated
    $175,128
    From this org
    $175,128
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $175,128
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $175,128

  • MARISSA FALLON

    Director of Advocacy

    Total calculated
    $158,620
    From this org
    $154,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,620
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,000
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $4,620
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $158,620

  • PAUL RUNKO

    Sr Dir of Strategic

    Total calculated
    $153,000
    From this org
    $153,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $153,000
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $153,000

  • ERIKA SANZI

    Sr Dir Communication

    Total calculated
    $150,000
    From this org
    $150,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • ANDREW KOZUSKO

    Director Development

    Total calculated
    $149,350
    From this org
    $145,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,350
    Hours/week
    40

  • PHILIP WILLARD

    CFOCOO

    Total calculated
    $36,779
    From this org
    $36,779
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • KENNETH MARCUS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KAROL MARKOWICZ

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EDWARD BLUM

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GARRETT EXNER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARY HASSON

    TRUSTEE

    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 — 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 · Written employment contract
  • 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

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
IRS schema version
2025v4.2
Source object
202612159349301091

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