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WASHINGTON MONTHLY INSTITUTE INC

EIN 80-0434806 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2025
$957,398
Expenses 2025
$1,411,651

Program services were 80.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
V24
Classification
2000
Street
1800 M ST NW FRNT 1 UNIT 33059

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).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

DEDICATED TO INCREASING PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE THROUGH WASHINGTON MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND WEBSITE WWW.WASHINGTONMONTHLY.COM PUBLISHED SINCE 1969, THE PRINT MAGAZINE IS THE COUNTRY'S MOST IMPORTANT WATCHDOG OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, FOCUSING ON WHAT'S WRONG AND HOW TO FIX IT.

Activities or mission (Part I)

DEDICATED TO INCREASING PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE THROUGH WASHINGTON MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND WEBSITE WWW.WASHINGTONMONTHLY.COM. THE PRINT MAGAZINE, IN ITS 56TH YEAR, IS THE MOST IMPORTANT WATCHDOG OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT BEING PUBLISHED TODAY, DIAGNOSING WHAT'S AWRY IN WASHINGTON AND WORLD AFFAIRS AND HOW TO FIX IT.

  • WHILE SMALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS AND BIG DIGITAL OUTLETS ALIKE HAVE CONTINUED TO DOWNSIZE, THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY'S MEDIA OUTLET IS CELEBRATING ITS 57TH YEAR OF PUBLICATION, STILL DOING WHAT FEWER AND FEWER PUBLICATIONS DO TODAY: TELLING FASCINATING, DEEPLY REPORTED GROUNDBREAKING STORIES ABOUT THE PROBLEMS PREVENTING US FROM MOVING FORWARD AS A NATION AND PROVIDING THE INTELLECTUAL TOOLS NECESSARY TO REFORM OUR GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS AND ENHANCE THEIR PERFORMANCE. NO OTHER OUTLET DOES A BETTER JOB OF LOOKING AT THE IDEAS AND CHARACTERS THAT ANIMATE AMERICA'S GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, AND CULTURE. AMONG THE TOPICS COVERED DURING 2025 AGAIN WERE: WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE INCREASING DOMINANCE OF CORPORATE GOLIATHS; SAVING LOCAL JOURNALISM; REFORMING FEDERAL BUREAUCRACIES; CONGRESS AND ELECTORAL REFORM; THE PEOPLE AND IDEAS RESHAPING HIGHER EDUCATION; AND VOTE-BY-MAIL (A POLICY WE HAVE LONG ADVOCATED AND CHAMPIONED);. THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY INSTITUTE'S WORK GARNERED NATIONAL ATTENTION - IN THE MEDIA, ON SOCIAL MEDIA, AND ON CAPITOL HILL, WHERE WE HAND-DELIVER THREE COPIES OF EACH ISSUE OF OUR PRINT MAGAZINE. WE ALSO CONTINUE TO PUBLISH THE WIDELY ACCLAIMED COLLEGE GUIDE AND RANKINGS, FEATURING DEEPLY REPORTED ARTICLES ON HIGHER EDUCATION FOR UNDERGRADS, ADULT LEARNERS, AND CERTIFICATE SEEKS. THE GUIDE'S RANKINGS OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ARE BASED ON EACH INSTITUTION'S ABILITY TO ENROLL AND GRADUATE STUDENTS OF MODEST MEANS WHILE FOSTERING COMMUNITY SERVICE AND RESEARCH PRODUCTION. SINCE THESE RANKINGS WERE FIRST PUBLISHED IN 2005 THEY HAVE STEADILY GROWN IN INFLUENCE AND PUBLIC AWARENESS. THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY MEDIA OUTLET IS KNOWN FOR HAVING LAUNCHED THE CAREERS OF JOURNALISTS WHO HAVE RISEN TO THE PINNACLE OF THE PROFESSION AND CONTINUES TO TRAIN YOUNG JOURNALISTS WHO GO ON TO POPULATE THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA. FEATURED STORIES AND WHITE PAPERS HIGHLIGHT ISSUES AND FRAME ARGUMENTS THAT ARE OFTEN PICKED UP BY OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS MONTHS OR EVEN YEARS LATER, WHILE OUR WEBSITE (WWW.WASHINGTONMONTHLY.COM) PROVIDES ONLINE COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS THAT'S INFORMATIVE, UNIQUE, AND LASER-FOCUSED ON THE CHALLENGING ISSUES FACING OUR DEMOCRACY.

    Expenses $1,129,321

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Paul Glastris

    EDITOR IN CH

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

  • Nicholas Lemann

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michelle Cottle

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Terry Edmonds

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Paul Glastris

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michael Sorrell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Steven Waldman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alice Gallin-Dwyer

    DEPUTY DIREC

    Total calculated
    $100,000
    From this org
    $100,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $957,398
    Expenses
    $1,411,651
    Contributions
    $716,384
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,075,875
    Expenses
    $1,490,425
    Contributions
    $1,793,525
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $703,068
    Expenses
    $1,482,400
    Contributions
    $500,159
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,014,906
    Expenses
    $1,409,890
    Contributions
    $1,785,015
    Grants paid
    $0

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

  • 2025 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,245,294
    Expenses
    $1,411,379
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,544,284

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,050,595
    Expenses
    $1,228,882
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,796,929

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $838,081
    Expenses
    $1,259,224
    Assets (EOY)
    $908,495

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,815,573
    Expenses
    $1,167,291
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,206,018

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2025 return

  • WASHINGTON MONTHLY LLC

    PUBLISHING · DC

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.