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CASPIAN POLICY CENTER

EIN 81-1369797 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$3,304,755
Expenses 2024
$2,807,130

Program services were 59.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q05
Classification
1000
Street
1015 15TH ST NW

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).

Other organizations at this address

9 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

RESEARCH THINK TANK WHICH IS INVOLVED WITH ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, ENERGY, AND SECURITY ISSUES IN THE CASPIAN REGION.

  • THE ENTITY IS A RESEARCH THINK TANK INVOLVED WITH ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, ENERGY, AND SECURITY ISSUES IN THE CASPIAN REGION. THEY HAVE RESEARCHED AND PROVIDED POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS TO THESE COMPLICATED ISSUES EFFECTING THE CASPIAN REGION.

    Expenses $1,679,808 · Revenue $3,236,005

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Efgan Nifti

    DIRECTOR/CEO

    Total calculated
    $397,400
    From this org
    $397,400
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $367,400
    Bonus
    $30,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $397,400
  • Richard Hoagland

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $84,000
    From this org
    $84,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Roger Kangas

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $36,000
    From this org
    $36,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Eric Rudenshiold

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $246,000
    From this org
    $246,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $246,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $246,000

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
    $3,304,755
    Expenses
    $2,807,130
    Contributions
    $2,692,235
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,578,461
    Expenses
    $2,852,326
    Contributions
    $2,578,461
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,067,012
    Expenses
    $1,980,807
    Contributions
    $2,067,012
    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
    $1,453,173
    Expenses
    $1,616,722
    Assets (EOY)
    $304,897
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,142,317
    Expenses
    $1,136,234
    Assets (EOY)
    $246,823
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,323,331
    Expenses
    $1,127,705
    Assets (EOY)
    $429,340
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,025,035
    Expenses
    $968,586
    Assets (EOY)
    $239,846
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,034,048
    Expenses
    $1,009,337
    Assets (EOY)
    $235,007

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 2016

Tax period
1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016
Principal officer
Afgan Niftiyev
Mailing address
1725 Eye St NW Ste 300Washington DC 20006
Website
http://www.caspianpolicy.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

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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