- Revenue 2024
- $622,408
- Expenses 2024
- $534,137
Program services were 90.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 04
- NTEE code
- W20
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 815 16TH ST NW 4TH FLOOR
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 · 2024
Mission
THE MISSION OF SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS IS TO: 1)PROTECT AND IMPROVE THE ECONOMIC SECURITY OF DISADVANTAGED; 2) SAFEGUARD THE ECONOMIC SECURITY OF THOSE DEPENDENT, NOW OR IN THE FUTURE,ON SOCIAL SECURITY; AND 3)MAINTAIN SOCIAL SECURITY AS A VEHICLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE.
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COALITION: SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS CONVENES THE STRENGTHEN SOCIAL SECURITY COALITION, A DIVERSE COALITION OF OVER 350 STATE-BASED AND NATIONAL GROUPS REPRESENTING ORGANIZED LABOR, PEOPLE OF COLOR, PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, WOMEN, THE LGBT COMMUNITY, VETERANS AND THE NETROOTS.POLICY: SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS IS AN EXPERT AT CREATING TRANSLATIONAL POLICY RESOURCES EXPLAINING COMPLEX POLICY ISSUES IN ACCESSIBLE EVERYDAY LANGUAGE. SSW CREATED NUMEROUS FACT SHEETS AND RESOURCES THAT WERE CRUCIAL IN THE POLITICALLY CHARGED AND FAST-MOVING ENVIRONMENTS OF VARIOUS BUDGET AND FISCAL DEBATES IN WASHINGTON, DC. SSW WAS A LEADING VOICE IN PROMOTING POLICIES TO PROTECT AND IMPROVE THE ECONOMIC SECURITY OF DISADVANTAGED AND AT-RISK POPULATIONS.PUBLIC EDUCATION: SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS EDUCATED THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE MEDIA, ONLINE DISTRIBUTION LISTS, AND OUR WEBSITE TO DISSEMINATE PLAIN LANGUAGE FACT SHEETS AND INFORMATION CONCERNING PROPOSALS THAT WOULD IMPACT OUR SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM
Expenses $480,724 · Revenue $622,408
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.
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Alexander LawsonALEXANDER LAWSON
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Michael PhelanMICHAEL PHELAN
DEPUTY DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Eric KingsonERIC KINGSON
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 8
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Nancy AltmanNANCY ALTMAN
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
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Jonathan BallJONATHAN BALL
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Richard ArenbergRICHARD ARENBERG
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Kathleen CurrieKATHLEEN CURRIE
DIRECTOR
- 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $622,408
- Expenses
- $534,137
- Contributions
- $622,371
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $636,724
- Expenses
- $582,520
- Contributions
- $636,656
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $413,618
- Expenses
- $681,682
- Contributions
- $413,447
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $654,893
- Expenses
- $857,455
- Assets (EOY)
- $347,286
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,194,825
- Expenses
- $990,503
- Assets (EOY)
- $559,537
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,117,282
- Expenses
- $1,033,093
- Assets (EOY)
- $357,704
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,068,332
- Expenses
- $1,224,596
- Assets (EOY)
- $306,034
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,064,788
- Expenses
- $1,018,683
- Assets (EOY)
- $449,578
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,106,324
- Expenses
- $1,178,218
- Assets (EOY)
- $396,915
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,314,328
- Expenses
- $1,203,209
- Assets (EOY)
- $466,596
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
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
-
$30,000
2023 PRIMARY PURPOSE
-
$20,000
2024 PUBLIC ADVOCACY: PRODUCE EVENTS POLLING AND MESSAGING AROUND ECONOMIC IDEAS.
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
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SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS EDUCATION FUND
501(C)(3) · SUPPORT SOCIAL SECURITY · DC
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SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS PAC
527 · SUPPORT SOCIAL SECURITY · DC
Declared as related by
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SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS EDUCATION FUND
On its 2024 return
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
Not present in the most recent drop.
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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.