- Revenue 2025
- $1,442,946
- Expenses 2025
- $1,278,209
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
- T31
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- 157 WELBORN ST UNIT B201
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
CAPITA IS AN INDEPENDENT THINK TANK AND LEARNING COMMUNITY THAT IS BUILDING A FUTURE GUIDED BY THE COMMON GOOD, WHERE FAMILIES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES CAN FLOURISH. WE DO THIS BY SHAPING THE ECONOMIC, CULTURAL, AND SOCIO- POLITICAL CONDITIONS THAT STRENGTHEN SOCIETY AMID THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF OUR TIME.
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CAPITA IS AN INDEPENDENT THINK TANK AND LEARNING COMMUNITY THAT IS BUILDING A FUTURE GUIDED BY THE COMMON GOOD, WHERE FAMILIES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES CAN FLOURISH. WE DO THIS BY SHAPING THE ECONOMIC, CULTURAL, AND SOCIO- POLITICAL CONDITIONS THAT STRENGTHEN SOCIETY AMID THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF OUR TIME.
Expenses $923,264 · Revenue $246,686
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
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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Joe WatersJOE WATERS
CEO
- Total calculated
- $135,000
- From this org
- $135,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Adrienne AllenADRIENNE ALLEN
TREASURER/SE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Ashley BecknerASHLEY BECKNER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Nicole BiondiNICOLE BIONDI
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Eva Fernandez GarzaEVA FERNANDEZ GARZA
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Brandon HinmanBRANDON HINMAN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Grady PowellGRADY POWELL
CO-FOUNDER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Hilary RikardHILARY RIKARD
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Patrin WatanatadaPATRIN WATANATADA
IMMDT. PAST
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jessica Dixon WeaverJESSICA DIXON WEAVER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
David WillisDAVID WILLIS
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
-
2025
- Revenue
- $1,442,946
- Expenses
- $1,278,209
- Contributions
- $1,196,204
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2024
- Revenue
- $1,158,156
- Expenses
- $1,250,879
- Contributions
- $937,113
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $968,805
- Expenses
- $1,184,567
- Contributions
- $865,183
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $1,062,259
- Expenses
- $754,717
- Contributions
- $969,755
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $474,783
- Expenses
- $384,605
- Assets (EOY)
- $128,913
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $366,083
- Expenses
- $275,249
- Assets (EOY)
- $283,935
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $292,813
- Expenses
- $132,844
- Assets (EOY)
- $193,416
-
2018 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $93,769
- Expenses
- $63,300
- Assets (EOY)
- $33,447
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 2017
- Tax period
- 2 March 2017 to 31 December 2017
- Principal officer
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Joe WatersJOE WATERS
- Mailing address
- 8 LOIS AVENUEGREENVILLE SC 29611
- Website
- WWW.CAPITASOCIAL.ORG
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 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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2022 $100K CHILDHOOD CLIMATE FUND AND $100K GENERAL OPERATING FUNDS
-
2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
$38,571
2023 PROGRAM RESEARCH
-
$35,000
2022 NEW VENTURE FUND/NARRATIVE INITIATIVE
-
$19,286
2024 PROGRAM RESEARCH
-
$6,429
2022 PROGRAM RESEARCH
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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.