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THE TRINITY FORUM INC

EIN 54-1612640 WASHINGTON, DC

Largest nonprofits in District of Columbia

Revenue 2025
$2,378,837
Expenses 2025
$2,164,825

Program services were 84.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T99
Classification
1000
Street
1015 18TH ST NW STE 201

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

TO ENCOURAGE AND ASSIST ESTABLISHED AND EMERGING LEADERS TO DEEPEN, INTEGRATE, AND APPLY THEIR FAITH IN CHRIST TO THEIR LIVES,CONTRIBUTING TO THE RENEWAL OF SOCIETY BY CULTIVATING AND PROMOTING THE BEST OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT, AND HELPING LEADERS TO THINK, WORK, AND LEAD WISELY AS WELL.

  • THE DEVELOPMENT OF CURRICULA, THE HOLDING OF FORUMS AND OTHER EVENTS, AND THE DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLICATION OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS.

    Expenses $1,820,578

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.

  • Cherie Harder

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $285,230
    From this org
    $285,230
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $285,230
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $285,230
  • Claude Alexander

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Katie Roland Allen

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Michael Brenan

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Barbara Bryant

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Howard Dahl

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Catherine Eshelman

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Sam Funk

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Katherine Haley

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Nathan Hatch

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Shirley Hoogstra

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • George Lclarkjr

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Roger Laing

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Paul McNulty

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Richard Miles

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Gif Thornton

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $2,378,837
    Expenses
    $2,164,825
    Contributions
    $1,903,078
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,126,457
    Expenses
    $2,162,378
    Contributions
    $1,736,491
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,976,998
    Expenses
    $1,862,240
    Contributions
    $1,652,197
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,876,998
    Expenses
    $1,862,240
    Contributions
    $1,552,197
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,926,037
    Expenses
    $1,700,226
    Contributions
    $1,685,198
    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
    $1,555,355
    Expenses
    $1,218,813
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,238,324
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,419,699
    Expenses
    $1,078,283
    Assets (EOY)
    $999,605
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,312,758
    Expenses
    $1,270,580
    Assets (EOY)
    $601,341
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,326,112
    Expenses
    $1,202,698
    Assets (EOY)
    $507,149
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,143,345
    Expenses
    $1,119,991
    Assets (EOY)
    $415,396
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,033,711
    Expenses
    $956,457
    Assets (EOY)
    $384,431
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,261,880
    Expenses
    $1,293,092
    Assets (EOY)
    $358,375
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,206,711
    Expenses
    $1,149,732
    Assets (EOY)
    $386,400
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,324,008
    Expenses
    $1,246,974
    Assets (EOY)
    $333,236
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,276,365
    Assets (EOY)
    $336,355

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

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

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

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.