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FREE RUSSIA FOUNDATION

EIN 47-2437810 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2024
$6,024,852
Expenses 2024
$5,545,581

Program services were 90.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q20
Classification
2000
Street
1015 15TH ST NW STE 600

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

8 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 600). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE WORK OF FREE RUSSIA FOUNDATION IS FOCUSED IN THREE KEY MISSION AREAS: 1. ADVANCING THE VISION OF A DEMOCRATIC, PROSPEROUS AND PEACEFUL RUSSIA GOVERNED BY THE RULE OF LAW BY EDUCATING THE NEXT GENERATION OF RUSSIAN LEADERS COMMITTED TO THESE IDEALS; 2. STRENGTHENING CIVIL SOCIETY IN RUSSIA AND DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PERSECUTED BY THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT; AND 3. SUPPORTING FORMULATION OF AN EFFECTIVE AND SUSTAINABLE RUSSIA POLICY IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE BY EDUCATING POLICY MAKERS AND INFORMING PUBLIC DEBATE.

  • SUPPORTING GLOBAL RUSSIAN PRO-DEMOCRACY FORCES THROUGH EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS; RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT RUSSIA-RELATED ISSUES AMONG WESTERN POLICY-MAKERS INCLUDING SEMINARS AND BRIEFINGS FOR THE U.S. CONGRESS, STATE DEPARTMENT, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, NATIONAL EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTS, THINK TANKS, DEMOCRACY PROMOTION, HUMAN RIGHTS AND MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS; CONDUCTING RESEARCH ON THE CURRENT SITUATION IN RUSSIA AND PROSPECTS FOR PRO-DEMOCRACY FORCES, ON THE WAYS THE CURRENT RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT UNDERMINES WESTERN INSTITUTIONS, SPREADS FAKE NEWS AND DISINFORMATION AND BRINGS ITS CORRUPT PRACTICES TO THE WEST. FORMULATING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR WESTERN GOVERNMENTS, PARLIAMENTS, EXPERT AND MEDIA COMMUNITY, AND CIVIL SOCIETY TO COUNTER KREMLIN'S DISINFORMATION AND KLEPTOCRACY. CONSOLIDATING EXILED PRO-DEMOCRACY RUSSIANS AND TRAINING THEM ON HOW TO ADVOCATE FOR RUSSIA-RELATED PRO-DEMOCRACY CAUSES AND INITIATIVES.

    Expenses $5,009,317 · Grants $934,538

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

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Hon David J Kramer

    BOARD CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related
  • Hon Paige Alexander

    BOARD VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related
  • Dr Sergey Aleksashenko

    BOARD TREASURER (END JAN 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related
  • Ellen Bork

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related
  • Thomas Firestone

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related
  • Ralf Fueks

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related
  • Toomas Hendrik Ilves

    BOARD MEMBER (END JUN 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related
  • Amb Ian Kelly

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related
  • Sarah Mendelson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related
  • Dr Alina Polyakova

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related
  • Dr Daniel Treisman

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related
  • Andrew Wood

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related
  • Nataliya Arno

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $184,743
    From this org
    $160,000
    From related orgs
    $12,096
    Other
    $12,647
    Hours/week
    37.4 + 2.6 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $150,000 + $12,096 related
    Bonus
    $10,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,647
    Filer's total
    $172,647 + $12,096 related
  • Nadezhda Valueva

    COO & SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $137,985
    From this org
    $115,000
    From related orgs
    $12,096
    Other
    $10,889
    Hours/week
    36.5 + 3.5 related
  • Olga Golovanenko

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $36,848
    From this org
    $36,848
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20 + 0.5 related

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,024,852
    Expenses
    $5,545,581
    Contributions
    $6,024,852
    Grants paid
    $934,538
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,061,364
    Expenses
    $4,732,036
    Contributions
    $5,061,139
    Grants paid
    $1,720,868
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,363,197
    Expenses
    $3,021,764
    Contributions
    $3,363,157
    Grants paid
    $1,042,420

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,113,288
    Expenses
    $1,306,473
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,678,814
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,459,899
    Expenses
    $1,303,730
    Assets (EOY)
    $681,283
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,176,780
    Expenses
    $2,057,647
    Assets (EOY)
    $415,856
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,004,881
    Expenses
    $832,521
    Assets (EOY)
    $288,056
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $508,188
    Expenses
    $494,995
    Assets (EOY)
    $115,696
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $133,979
    Expenses
    $126,662
    Assets (EOY)
    $109,820
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $399,036
    Expenses
    $323,087
    Assets (EOY)
    $102,529
  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $85,958
    Expenses
    $59,701
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,554

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

  • FOUNDATION FOR DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT

    501(C)(3) · CHARITABLE · DE · controlled entity

  • DR-VIR

    EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS · LH · controlled entity

  • FRB

    EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS · GM · controlled entity

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.