- Revenue 2025
- $300,000
- Expenses 2025
- $186,197
Program services were 99.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 04
- NTEE code
- R05
- Classification
- 3000
- Street
- 101 CONSTITUTION AVE NW 710E
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
The mission of Winning the Issues is to promote social welfare by educating decision makers on what issues are most important to Americans, what messages they are hearing on those issues, and what communications are most effective.
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The mission of Winning the Issues is to promote social welfare by educating decision makers on the issues that are most important to Americans, the messages they are hearing on those issues, and the communications that are most effective. In 2025, the organization conducted surveys of American citizens on important issues and made the research publicly available online. Issues explored in depth during 2025 included the economy and inflation, taxes, education, and health care. Findings were made available through educational tools such as videos and reports.
Expenses $185,000
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.
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Trent Lott
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Robert S Walker
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Bret Boyles
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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
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2025
- Revenue
- $300,000
- Expenses
- $186,197
- Contributions
- $300,000
- Grants paid
- $0
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2024
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $130,514
- Contributions
- not reported
- Grants paid
- not reported
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2023
- Revenue
- $300,000
- Expenses
- $88,279
- Contributions
- $300,000
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $80,400
- Expenses
- $256,125
- Contributions
- $80,400
- Grants paid
- not reported
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $410,900
- Expenses
- $436,335
- Assets (EOY)
- $263,662
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2020 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $160,000
- Expenses
- $268,000
- Assets (EOY)
- $289,097
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $650,000
- Expenses
- $414,137
- Assets (EOY)
- $397,097
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $260,000
- Expenses
- $168,799
- Assets (EOY)
- $161,234
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2017 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $90,000
- Expenses
- $40,000
- Assets (EOY)
- $70,033
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $394,000
- Expenses
- $374,043
- Assets (EOY)
- $20,033
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2015
- Tax period
- 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015
- Principal officer
- TRENT LOTT
- Mailing address
- 101 CONSTITUTION AVE NWWASHINGTON DC 20001
- Website
- WWW.WINNINGTHEISSUES.ORG
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.
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
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$300,000
2022 General Support
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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.