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SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS

EIN 46-1373125 WASHINGTON, DC

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.

  • 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.

  • Alexander Lawson

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Michael Phelan

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Eric Kingson

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8
  • Nancy Altman

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Jonathan Ball

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Richard Arenberg

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kathleen 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $622,408
    Expenses
    $534,137
    Contributions
    $622,371
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $636,724
    Expenses
    $582,520
    Contributions
    $636,656
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $654,893
    Expenses
    $857,455
    Assets (EOY)
    $347,286
  • 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
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,068,332
    Expenses
    $1,224,596
    Assets (EOY)
    $306,034
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,064,788
    Expenses
    $1,018,683
    Assets (EOY)
    $449,578
  • 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

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

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

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.