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LOS ANGELES METROPOLITAN DEBATE COMMISSION

EIN 27-3388731 LOS ANGELES, CA

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Revenue 2024
$694,576
Expenses 2024
$597,631

Program services were 82.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B80
Classification
1000
Street
350 S GRAND AVE 50TH 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

SUPPORTING DEBATE PROGRAMS IN LOS ANGELES PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Activities or mission (Part I)

SUPPORTING DEBATE PROGRAMS IN LA PUBLIC SCHOOLS

  • FUNDED 8 DEBATE TOURNAMENTS AND 3 PUBLIC DEBATES (EACH 2 DAYS LONG) THAT WERE FREE FOR STUDENTS TO ATTEND.

    Expenses $441,548

  • FUNDED A WEEK-LONG SUMMER DEBATE WORKSHOP FOR STUDENTS THAT TARGETED BOTH INCOMING NOVICE DEBATERS AS WELL AS RETURNING ADVANCED DEBATERS. STUDENTS PARTICIPATED IN LARGE GROUP LECTURES IN THE MORNING AND BROKE INTO SMALLER GROUPS FOR LABS AND ACTIVITES IN THE AFTERNOON.

    Expenses $50,329

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Michael Cirelli

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $120,000
    From this org
    $120,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 40 related
  • Henry Weissmann

    CO-CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 5 related
  • Bart Williams

    CO-CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 5 related
  • Alex Berger

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Justine Daniels

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Grant Davis-Denny

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Joseph Axelrad

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Susan Napier Berger

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Michael Harbour

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Jill Fox

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Nathaniel Haas

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Jodi Kruger

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Jill Bassinger

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Kiira Johal

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Michael Bietz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Jonathan Schneller

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Wade Gentz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Janet Shamilian

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Nika Shahery

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Nathan M Saper

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Robyn Bacon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $694,576
    Expenses
    $597,631
    Contributions
    $643,230
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $624,688
    Expenses
    $590,051
    Contributions
    $568,406
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $595,791
    Expenses
    $564,543
    Contributions
    $591,335
    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
    $572,379
    Expenses
    $494,796
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,509,310
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $496,668
    Expenses
    $338,934
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,444,848
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,597,444
    Expenses
    $404,833
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,245,512
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $406,607
    Expenses
    $414,838
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,693

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 November 2018, reinstated 15 November 2018.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.