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AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC

EIN 13-3871360 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2024
$222,051,375
Expenses 2024
$185,590,909

Program services were 80.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Classification
3000
Street
125 BROAD STREET

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).

Group exemption

The central organization of an IRS group exemption (group number 2131), covering 47 subordinate organizations. matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

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Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

AS NOTED IN ITS ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION, THE MISSION OF THE ACLU IS "TO MAINTAIN AND ADVANCE CIVIL LIBERTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE FREEDOMS OF ASSOCIATION, PRESS, RELIGION AND SPEECH, AND THE RIGHTS TO THE FRANCHISE, TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW, AND TO EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS FOR ALL PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE U.S. AND ITS JURISDICTIONS. THE ACLU'S OBJECTS SHALL BE SOUGHT WHOLLY WITHOUT POLITICAL PARTISANSHIP." THE ACLU TODAY REMAINS FOCUSED ON THE OVERARCHING GOALS SET BY ITS FOUNDERS MORE THAN 100 YRS AGO, SERVING AS THE NATION'S GUARDIAN OF LIBERTY, WORKING DAILY IN COURTS, LEGISLATURES AND COMMUNITIES TO DEFEND AND PRESERVE THE INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES THAT THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE US GUARANTEE. THE ACLU ALSO WORKS TO EXTEND RIGHTS TO SEGMENTS OF THE POPULATION THAT HAVE TRADITIONALLY BEEN DENIED THEIR RIGHTS, INCLUDING PEOPLE OF COLOR; WOMEN; LESBIANS, GAY MEN, BISEXUALS AND TRANSGENDER AND GENDER NONBINARY PEOPLE; PRISONERS; AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PRESERVATION AND PROMOTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES.

  • AFFILIATE SUPPORT - THE ACLU HAS AN AFFILIATE OR CHAPTER IN EVERY STATE AND IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND PUERTO RICO. AFFILIATES HANDLE REQUESTS FOR LEGAL ASSISTANCE, LOBBY STATE LEGISLATURES AND HOST EDUCATIONAL FORUMS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. THE NATIONAL ACLU COORDINATES FUNDRAISING EFFORTS WITH ITS AFFILIATES AND SHARES THE PROCEEDS OF FUNDRAISING EFFORTS WITH AFFILIATES IN ACCORDANCE WITH A DETAILED POLICY. THROUGH ITS AFFILIATE SUPPORT AND NATIONWIDE INITIATIVES (ASNI) DEPARTMENT, THE NATIONAL ACLU PROVIDES GRANTS AND SUPPORT TO AFFILIATES ON SPECIFIC INITIATIVES AND PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS INVOLVING MATTERS OF BOTH LOCAL/REGIONAL AND NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE. ASNI PROVIDES ONGOING TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO AFFILIATES ON A VARIETY OF TOPICS OF RELEVANCE. THE $88,289,780 OF EXPENSES INCLUDES GRANTS TO AFFILIATES, BEYOND THE $8,546,612 GRANT, TO SUPPORT LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVES. ASNI PROVIDES ONGOING TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO AFFILIATES ON A VARIETY OF TOPICS OF RELEVANCE. THE $88,289,780 OF EXPENSES INCLUDES GRANTS TO AFFILIATES, BEYOND THE $8,546,612 GRANT, TO SUPPORT LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVES.

    Expenses $88,289,780 · Grants $8,546,612

  • EDUCATION - THROUGH NEWSLETTERS, ITS COMPREHENSIVE WEBSITE, ADVERTISEMENTS, OP-ED ARTICLES, MEDIA INTERVIEWS, PUBLICATIONS, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND NUMEROUS MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS CONDUCTED IN COLLABORATION WITH ITS AFFILIATES THROUGHOUT THE US, THE ACLU PROVIDES ONGOING EDUCATION TO ITS approximately 1,400,000 supporters AND TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE CONCERNING A WIDE RANGE OF CIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES. THE ORGANIZATION'S EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGNS EMPHASIZE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS TO FREE SPEECH, ASSOCIATION AND ASSEMBLY; THE RIGHT TO EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW; THE RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AND TO FAIR TREATMENT WHEN THE LOSS OF LIBERTY OR PROPERTY IS AT STAKE; AND THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY AND FREEDOM FROM UNWARRANTED GOVERNMENT INTRUSION INTO PERSONAL AND PRIVATE AFFAIRS.

    Expenses $32,136,159

  • LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY - THE ACLU'S LEGISLATIVE ADVOCATES ARE A CONSTANT PRESENCE ON CAPITOL HILL AND IN STATE LEGISLATURES, WHERE THEY WORK TO ADDRESS CIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES. BASED PRIMARILY IN THE ACLU'S WASHINGTON, DC OFFICE, THE ORGANIZATION'S LEGISLATIVE POLICY TEAM WORKS TO ENSURE THAT PROPOSED LEGISLATION MOVES TOWARDS, RATHER THAN AWAY, FROM THE CIVIL LIBERTIES GOALS OF THE ORGANIZATION. WORKING IN COLLABORATION WITH STAFF FROM ACLU AFFILIATES ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND IN COALITION WITH OTHER GROUPS WITH A SHARED INTEREST IN SPECIFIC CIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES, THE ACLU CONDUCTS RESEARCH, PUBLISHES POSITION PAPERS, HOSTS FORUMS FOR THE PUBLIC, AND MEETS WITH KEY LEGISLATORS AND MEMBERS OF THEIR STAFFS TO DISCUSS STRATEGIES TO PROTECT CIVIL LIBERTIES AND RIGHTS.

    Expenses $21,538,267 · Grants $1,761,420

  • LEGAL - THE ACLU SEEKS TO IMPACT CIVIL LIBERTIES THROUGH WORK ON LEGISLATION AT THE FEDERAL AND STATE LEVEL, AS APPROPRIATE. THE ORGANIZATION'S LEGISLATIVE ADVOCATES ARE A CONSTANT PRESENCE ON FEDERAL AND STATE CIVIL LIBERTIES LEGISLATIVE ISSUES. UPDATES ON KEY LEGISLATIVE ISSUES IMPACTING CIVIL LIBERTIES ARE INCLUDED IN MAIL, EMAIL, AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS TO ACLU MEMBERS NATIONWIDE, AS WELL AS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGNS. IN ADDITION, THE ACLU DEVELOPS POLICY RELATING TO POSITIONS ON CIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES. EXPENSES $6,263,161. INCLUDING GRANTS OF $0. REVENUE $0. CIVIL LIBERTIES POLICY FORMULATION - THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE ACLU WORKS THROUGH ITS STANDING AND SPECIAL COMMITTEES TO ANALYZE CIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES AND, WHERE APPROPRIATE, TO DEVELOP POLICIES THAT WILL SERVE AS THE FRAME OF REFERENCE FOR LEGISLATIVE, EDUCATIONAL AND CASE-SPECIFIC WORK AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL, AND THE ORGANIZATION IMPLEMENTS AND ASSISTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLICY GOALS THROUGH ITS AFFILIATES. EXPENSES $1,308,411. INCLUDING GRANTS OF $0. REVENUE $0.

    Expenses $7,571,572

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.

  • Charu Verma

    DIRECTOR/VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.5 + 3.5 related

  • Connie Tcheng

    DIRECTOR/TREASURER(AS OF 02/01/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.5 + 4.4 related

  • Dax Goldstein

    DIRECTOR/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.5 + 3.5 related

  • Deborah Archer

    DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.5 + 4.4 related

  • Nancy Fannon

    CO-SECRETARY (THRU 10/5/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.5

  • Robert Remar

    DIRECTOR/VP, TREASURER (THRU 02/01/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.5 + 4.5 related

  • Ronald Chen

    DIRECTOR/GENERAL COUNSEL

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.5

  • Ronald Tyler

    EX-OFFICIO OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.5 + 3.5 related

  • Shaakirrah Sanders

    DIRECTOR/GENERAL COUNSEL

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.5 + 3.5 related

  • Alexis Karteron

    DIRECTOR (AS OF 01/01/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Alice Boyer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Allan Hillman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Alonzo Kelly

    DIRECTOR (AS OF 10/01/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Amber Cyphers Stephens

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Amer Sajed

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 0.9 related

  • Andrew Aleman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 0.9 related

  • Angela Cook

    DIRECTOR (AS OF 01/01/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Anil Mujumdar

    DIRECTOR (THRU 02/02/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2.5 related

  • Anne Farmer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Anne Gordon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Annie B Williams

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Ashley Heilprin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Ben Matthews

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Carol Windrum

    DIRECTOR (AS OF 01/01/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Carolyn Love

    DIRECTOR (THRU 06/07/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $222,051,375
    Expenses
    $185,590,909
    Contributions
    $220,027,137
    Grants paid
    $10,308,032
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $142,704,104
    Expenses
    $143,607,758
    Contributions
    $141,304,166
    Grants paid
    $8,335,187
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $146,699,874
    Expenses
    $174,521,367
    Contributions
    $145,449,342
    Grants paid
    $10,517,412

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
    $162,150,933
    Expenses
    $162,866,541
    Assets (EOY)
    $218,780,528

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $170,961,146
    Expenses
    $155,530,309
    Assets (EOY)
    $205,028,782

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $140,404,183
    Expenses
    $144,488,761
    Assets (EOY)
    $202,351,220

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $139,090,985
    Expenses
    $145,927,989
    Assets (EOY)
    $192,989,413

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $144,422,305
    Expenses
    $109,628,194
    Assets (EOY)
    $205,704,983

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $155,827,510
    Expenses
    $66,421,592
    Assets (EOY)
    $166,213,986

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $42,801,693
    Expenses
    $38,598,543
    Assets (EOY)
    $87,958,608

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $50,628,968
    Expenses
    $41,974,931
    Assets (EOY)
    $83,794,932

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $36,933,127
    Expenses
    $37,030,460
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,488,272

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $36,898,765
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,942,179

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

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

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Grants received

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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.

  • TELEFUND LLC

    $2,970,229 raised

    2024 Commercial Fundraiser

    $2,929,912 to charity

  • NEW CANVASSING EXPERIENCE INC.

    $907,021 raised

    2024 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$6,738,778 to charity

  • PUBLIC OUTREACH FUNDRAISING LLC

    $633,302 raised

    2024 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$73,565 to charity

  • TELEFUND LLC

    $2,525,712 raised

    2023 Commercial Fundraiser

    $2,050,295 to charity

  • NEW CANVASSING EXPERIENCE INC.

    $1,142,908 raised

    2023 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$231,783 to charity

  • INTEGRAL RESOURCES LLC

    $505,092 raised

    2023 Commercial Fundraiser

    $505,092 to charity

  • TELEFUND LLC

    $877,275 raised

    2022 Commercial Fundraiser

    $562,349 to charity

  • INTEGRAL RESOURCES INC.

    $155,790 raised

    2022 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$10,009 to charity

  • NEW CANVASSING EXPERIENCE INC.

    $3,716,499 raised

    2021 Commercial Fundraiser

    $480,297 to charity

  • TELEFUND INC.

    $905,444 raised

    2021 Commercial Fundraiser

    $650,568 to charity

  • TELEFUND INC.

    $646,383 raised

    2021 Commercial Fundraiser

    $551,241 to charity

  • SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

    $0 raised

    2021 Commercial Fundraiser

    $0 to charity

  • INTEGRAL RESOURCES INC.

    $191,596 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    $113,128 to charity

  • DONOR SERVICES GROUP LLC

    $185,475 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    $89,770 to charity

  • TELEFUND INC.

    $29,344 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$278,417 to charity

  • NEW CANVASSING EXPERIENCE INC.

    $14,927 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$700 to charity

  • SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

    $240 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    $240 to charity

  • DONOR SERVICES GROUP LLC

    $1,210,322 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    $730,871 to charity

  • DONOR SERVICES GROUP LLC

    $626,710 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    $220,076 to charity

  • GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGNS INC.

    $484,876 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    $55,616 to charity

  • INTEGRAL RESOURCES INC.

    $90,209 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$3,592 to charity

  • TELEFUND INC.

    $62,840 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$4,149 to charity

  • GORDON & SCHWENKMEYER INC.

    $28,275 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$11,497 to charity

  • SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

    $9,620 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    $2,976 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.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.