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BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER FOUNDATION

EIN 04-3454684 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2023
$5,414,662
Expenses 2023
$2,411,982

Program services were 72.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W240
Classification
2000
Street
1319 F ST NW STE 301 # 238

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

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 301). 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 · 2023

Mission

BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER FOUNDATION (BISC FOUNDATION) STRENGTHENS DEMOCRACY BY CONDUCTING RESEARCH TO BETTER UNDERSTAND PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARD ISSUES AND THE ROLE BALLOT MEASURES PLAY IN OUR DEMOCRACY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

BISC FOUNDATION CONDUCTS RESEARCH ON ISSUES AND THE ROLE OF BALLOT MEASURES IN DEMOCRACY.

  • STRATEGIC INITIATIVES: BISC FOUNDATION WORKS WITH 501(C)(3) PARTNERS TO SUPPORT CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND PARTNER ALIGNMENT EFFORTS.

    Expenses $520,892 · Grants $425,000 · Revenue $101,550

  • CAPACITY BUILDING TRAINING

    Expenses $448,228

  • POLICY AND LEGAL ADVOCACY ENCOMPASSES WORKING WITH STATE AND NATIONAL PARTNERS, INCLUDING BISC'S LAWYER'S GUILD, TO PROTECT DIRECT DEMOCRACY AND PROGRESSIVE BALLOT MEASURE WINS AROUND THE COUNTRY, WORKING WITH STATE AND NATIONAL PARTNERS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF EQUITABLE AND STRATEGIC BALLOT MEASURE POLICIES, AS WELL AS THE TRACKING OF BALLOT MEASURES AND ANALYSIS OF BALLOT MEASURE TRENDS.COMMUNICATIONS: BISC FOUNDATION COMMUNICATIONS FOCUSES ON EXPANDING OUR PRESENCE WITHIN THE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT COMMUNITY VIA EMAIL, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND PRESS INTERVIEWS.

    Expenses $277,842

  • ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

    Expenses $214,708

  • COMMUNICATIONS

    Expenses $148,894

  • ROAD AHEAD 2023

    Expenses $130,942

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Elena Nunez

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eric Marshall

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rodney McKenzie

    SECRETARY- UNTIL 11/23

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Danielle Atkinson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jennifer Epps-Addison

    DIRECTOR- UNTIL 04/23

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dakota Hall

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andrea Marta

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Victoria Kirby York

    DIRECTOR- UNTIL 12/23

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Emily Persaud-Zamora

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris Melody Fields Figueredo

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,414,662
    Expenses
    $2,411,982
    Contributions
    $5,407,955
    Grants paid
    $425,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,916,335
    Expenses
    $2,120,169
    Contributions
    $2,820,593
    Grants paid
    $62,500

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
    $2,201,310
    Expenses
    $1,344,164
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,667,752

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,383,246
    Expenses
    $1,108,956
    Assets (EOY)
    $840,449

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $828,999
    Expenses
    $849,968
    Assets (EOY)
    $616,417

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $535,709
    Expenses
    $1,005,663
    Assets (EOY)
    $571,789

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $594,258
    Expenses
    $975,037
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,131,260

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,304,767
    Expenses
    $1,043,766
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,727,229

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,295,248
    Expenses
    $704,728
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,147,255

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,270,552
    Expenses
    $1,112,122
    Assets (EOY)
    $902,798

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $572,898
    Assets (EOY)
    $370,429

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $517,546
    Assets (EOY)
    $141,076

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.