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DEMOCRACY A JOURNAL OF IDEAS INC

EIN 20-3685508 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$514,968
Expenses 2024
$797,797

Program services were 73.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B60
Classification
1000
Street
818 18TH ST NW STE 750

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).

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.

  • ANDREI CHERNY

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • SHANE BATEMAN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBERT ABERNETHY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 5 related

  • GLEN FUKUSHIMA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NICK HANAUER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL TOMASKY

    EDITOR

    Total calculated
    $100,000
    From this org
    $100,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • WILLIAM BUDINGER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JACK MESERVE

    MANAGING EDITOR

    Total calculated
    $88,102
    From this org
    $82,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,102
    Hours/week
    40

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 — 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
    $514,968
    Expenses
    $797,797
    Contributions
    $510,509
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $834,549
    Expenses
    $588,840
    Contributions
    $829,886
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $567,517
    Expenses
    $488,081
    Contributions
    $562,752
    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

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2019, reinstated 15 May 2019.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 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.