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TESSERACT RESEARCH CENTER INC

EIN 27-4552853 WASHINGTON, DC

Largest nonprofits in District of Columbia

Revenue 2025
$3,087,531
Expenses 2025
$3,665,238

Program services were 74.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B01
Classification
2000
Street
1629 K ST NW STE 300

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

TESSERACT RESEARCH CENTER, INC. IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO FOSTERING AND PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE OF PUBLIC POLICY THROUGH RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS, AND EVENTS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TESSERACT RESEARCH CENTER, INC IS A NON-PROFIT, NON-PARTISAN ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT PUBLIC POLICY, THE ECONOMY AND THE IMPORTANCE OF A STRONG DEMOCRACY THROUGH PUBLIC EDUCATION, RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS.

  • PATRIOTIC MILLIONAIRES FOCUSES ON BUILDING A MORE STABLE, PROSPEROUS, AND INCLUSIVE NATION BY PROMOTING PUBLIC POLICIES BASED ON THE "FIRST PRINCIPLES" OF EQUAL POLITICAL REPRESENTATION, A GUARANTEED LIVING WAGE FOR ALL WORKING CITIZENS, AND A FAIR TAX SYSTEM. THE PROGRAM STRIVES TO ENSURE THAT:1)ALL CITIZENS SHOULD ENJOY POLITICAL POWER EQUAL TO THAT ENJOYED BY MILLIONAIRES;AND 2)ALL CITIZENS WHO WORK FULL TIME SHOULD BE ABLE TO AFFORD THEIR BASIC NEEDS;TAX RECEIPTS FROM MILLIONAIRES, BILLIONAIRES AND CORPORATIONS SHOULD MAKE UP A GREATER PROPORTION OF FEDERAL TAX RECEIPTS.

    Expenses $2,112,314 · Revenue $3,027,545

  • THE GREAT ECONOMY PROJECT IS A NON-PARTISAN EFFORT TO ORGANIZE GROUPS OF PEOPLE IN RURAL PARTS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND WISCONSIN TO LEARN ABOUT THE POLICIES THAT THE CENTER IS WORKING ON.

    Expenses $595,646 · Revenue $59,986

  • DECIDERS ARE MADE UP OF LOCAL VOLUNTEERS WHO ENGAGE IN VARIOUS FORMS OF ACTIVISM TO HELP PUT PUBLIC PRESSURE ON THEIR ELECTED OFFICIALS TO DEMAND ECONOMIC REFORM. THEY ATTEND MEETINGS, GO TO LOBBY DAYS, AND REPRESENT THE GROUP AT FAIRS, FESTIVALS, AND COMMUNITY EVENTS THROUGHOUT SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA.

    Expenses $17,433

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • Erica Payne

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $333,805
    From this org
    $234,727
    From related orgs
    $65,273
    Other
    $33,805
    Hours/week
    31 + 9 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $234,727 + $65,273 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $5,958 + $1,657 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,491 + $5,698 related
    Filer's total
    $261,176 + $72,628 related
  • Holli Woodings

    VP GOVT AFFAIRS

    Total calculated
    $202,945
    From this org
    $86,850
    From related orgs
    $66,963
    Other
    $49,132
    Hours/week
    23 + 17 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $86,850 + $66,963 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,626 + $3,567 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $23,116 + $17,823 related
    Filer's total
    $114,592 + $88,353 related
  • Jodie Rubenstein

    TREASURER/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $221,715
    From this org
    $104,868
    From related orgs
    $80,193
    Other
    $36,654
    Hours/week
    23 + 17 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $104,868 + $80,193 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $5,471 + $4,183 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,300 + $11,700 related
    Filer's total
    $125,639 + $96,076 related
  • Rene Felt

    ART DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $183,524
    From this org
    $144,396
    From related orgs
    $4,142
    Other
    $34,986
    Hours/week
    39 + 1 related
  • Gene Haigh

    SENIOR ADVISOR

    Total calculated
    $145,358
    From this org
    $101,126
    From related orgs
    $18,874
    Other
    $25,358
    Hours/week
    34 + 6 related
  • Adam Shubert

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $144,818
    From this org
    $128,485
    From related orgs
    $8,251
    Other
    $8,082
    Hours/week
    38 + 2 related
  • Robert Lord

    SENIOR ADVISOR

    Total calculated
    $118,587
    From this org
    $76,789
    From related orgs
    $34,669
    Other
    $7,129
    Hours/week
    28 + 12 related
  • Chuck Collins

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related
  • Morris Pearl

    CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related
  • Anna Maria Archila

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related
  • Stephen Prince

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related
  • Drew Pomerance

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $3,087,531
    Expenses
    $3,665,238
    Contributions
    $3,087,531
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,253,547
    Expenses
    $4,728,715
    Contributions
    $3,252,516
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,884,210
    Expenses
    $4,792,793
    Contributions
    $3,883,867
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,256,273
    Expenses
    $7,519,858
    Contributions
    $2,236,096
    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
    $2,226,497
    Expenses
    $3,870,198
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,180,925
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,957,922
    Expenses
    $13,443,580
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,053,886
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,430,667
    Expenses
    $5,140,426
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,618,893
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $26,649,889
    Expenses
    $2,223,066
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,037,366
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,038,658
    Expenses
    $4,782,341
    Assets (EOY)
    $551,212
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,018,827
    Expenses
    $933,043
    Assets (EOY)
    $94,635
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $673,110
    Expenses
    $722,352
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,743
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,072,722
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,667

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

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

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 2025 return

Declared as related by

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

  • PATRIOTIC MILLIONAIRES RESERCH CENTER LLC

    DC

  • THE AGENDA PROJECT RESEARCH CENTER LLC

    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.