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DEMOCRACY DEFENSE PROJECT INC

EIN 99-0888028 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2024
$3,550,180
Expenses 2024
$1,262,788

Program services were 98.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Street
107 GREENWICH STREET Suite 26TH FL

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

THE PURPOSE OF THE DEMOCRACY DEFENSE PROJECT IS TO REBUILD CONFIDENCE IN THE ELECTORAL PROCESS BY CREATING A BIPARTISAN COALITION AND EMPOWERING TRUSTED VOICES TO TALK ABOUT ELECTION INTEGRITY AND BEGIN TO REBUILD AMERICANS' FAITH IN OUR ELECTION SYSTEM.

Activities or mission (Part I)

REBUILD CONFIDENCE IN THE ELECTORAL PROCESS BY CREATING A BIPARTISAN COALITION AND EMPOWERING TRUSTED VOICES TO TALK ABOUT ELECTION INTEGRITY AND BEGIN TO REBUILD AMERICANS' FAITH IN OUR ELECTION SYSTEM.

  • DEMOCRACY DEFENSE PROJECT IS ORGANIZED AND OPERATED TO REBUILD TRUST IN AMERICA'S ELECTORAL PROCESS BY UPLIFTING TRUSTED VOICES FROM BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES TO PUBLICLY AND PERSISTENTLY DEFEND THE AMERICAN ELECTORAL PROCESS, PROMOTE ELECTION INTEGRITY, AND REBUILD TRUST IN THE AMERICAN ELECTORAL SYSTEM. DDP CREATED A BIPARTISAN COALITION TO LEAD THIS WORK THROUGH A COORDINATED COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGN AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL. SPECIFICALLY, THE ORGANIZATION WORKS WITH LIKE-MINDED ORGANIZATIONS TO PROMOTE POSITIVE CHANGES IN ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION TO REBUILD FAITH IN THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM, WORKS WITH ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS AND THINK TANKS TO PROMOTE STUDIES ON THE SAFETY OF AMERICA'S DECENTRALIZED VOTE-COUNTING SYSTEM, PROMOTES THOUGHTFUL IDEAS AND DIALOGUE ABOUT HOW TO CONTINUE TO IMPROVE THE SYSTEM, AND EDUCATES REPORTERS WHO COVER THE ELECTION ON THE PROCESS OF VOTE COUNTING IN ADVANCE OF ELECTION DAY.

    Expenses $398,734

  • DEMOCRACY DEFENSE PROJECT MAINTAINS SIMILAR PROGRAMS TO ITS FEDERAL EFFORTS AT THE STATE-LEVEL.

    Expenses $839,578

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.

  • Jeffrey Kaplan

    DIRECTOR AND PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Larry Rogers

    DIRECTOR AND TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michael Palmer

    DIRECTOR, VP & SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anthony Salesi

    ASSISTANT TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $3,550,180
    Expenses
    $1,262,788
    Contributions
    $3,500,000
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,991,247
    Expenses
    $6,830,805
    Contributions
    $6,850,000
    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.

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

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.