ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION INC

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1000

Street

815 EDDY ST

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

• Educated the public regarding new forms of technology, fostered discussion as well as public policy analysis regarding the legal and social issues raised by technology, and conducted litigation in the public interest to preserve human and civil rights.

  Expenses $18,332,068 · Grants $10,000

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.

The first 25 listed. 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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $21,592,581

  Expenses

  $25,771,066

  Contributions

  $19,460,238

  Grants paid

  $10,000

• 2023

  Revenue

  $29,363,509

  Expenses

  $21,853,920

  Contributions

  $22,028,260

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $17,954,838

  Expenses

  $19,156,013

  Contributions

  $16,648,966

  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

  $23,876,681

  Expenses

  $16,747,298

  Assets (EOY)

  $46,412,039

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $17,692,904

  Expenses

  $15,427,845

  Assets (EOY)

  $46,555,416

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $12,212,821

  Expenses

  $14,980,781

  Assets (EOY)

  $40,689,795

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $12,212,821

  Expenses

  $14,980,781

  Assets (EOY)

  $40,689,795

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $14,232,158

  Expenses

  $14,567,170

  Assets (EOY)

  $40,872,397

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $15,913,065

  Expenses

  $13,379,612

  Assets (EOY)

  $40,253,077

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $17,392,426

  Expenses

  $11,398,529

  Assets (EOY)

  $36,327,464

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,056,928

  Expenses

  $10,364,758

  Assets (EOY)

  $28,829,197

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $17,132,485

  Expenses

  $9,245,485

  Assets (EOY)

  $30,221,213

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

• Access Now

  $10,000

  2024 · To defend the digital rights of people and communities at risk.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $1,639,574

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $1,192,503

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $1,069,649

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $949,600

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $929,782

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $886,810

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $697,403

  2024 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $508,750

  2022 · Civil Participation

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $397,512

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $377,550

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

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

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

• RITEWAY CHARITY SERVICES INC.

  $0 raised

  2024 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $0 to charity

• RITEWAY CHARITY SERVICES INC.

  $2,300 raised

  2021 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $1,435 to charity

• RITEWAY CHARITY SERVICES INC.

  $8,125 raised

  2020 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $5,178 to charity

• RITEWAY CHARITY SERVICES INC.

  $2,950 raised

  2019 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $1,735 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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