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THE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

EIN 46-0758941 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2024
$1,635,698
Expenses 2024
$1,708,148

Program services were 72.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A99
Classification
1000
Street
633 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW FL3

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 · 2024

Mission

THE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION'S MISSION IS TO PROMOTE AWARENESS OF THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MEMORIAL LOCATED IN WASHINGTON,D.C. AND THE TENETS OF DEMOCRACY; CREATE INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS; PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEANINGFUL EXCHANGE OF IDEAS;HONOR INDIVIDUALS WHO IMPLEMENT THE FOUR TENTS; AND TO ENCOURAGE TRAFFIC TO AN UPKEEP OF THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MEMORIAL

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION MISSION IS TO PROMOTE AWARENESS OF THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MEMORIAL LOCATED IN WASHINGTON,D.C. AND ITS TENETS OF DEMOCRACY, JUSTICE, HOPE, AND LOVE AS WELL AS TO SUPPORT THE GENERAL UPKEEP OF THE MEMORIAL IN FUTURE YEARS. THE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION WILL ACHIEVE ITS MISSION BY CREATING INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS.

  • THE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION PLANNED, ORGANIZED, AND HOSTED SEVERAL EVENTS AND PROGRAMS TO PROMOTE AWARENESS OF THE MARTIN LUTHER KING MEMORIAL AND ITS IMPORTANCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY AND THE EDUCATION OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA.

    Expenses $1,229,024

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.

  • Harry Johnson Sr

    PRESIDENT AN

    Total calculated
    $301,097
    From this org
    $270,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $31,097
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $270,000
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $1,097
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,000
    Filer's total
    $301,097

  • James Simmons

    FINANCE MANA

    Total calculated
    $103,334
    From this org
    $103,334
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Michael Bennett

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Ken Bentsen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Joe Bines

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • La Davia Drane

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Sandra Evers-Manly

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Rev Joe Ratliff Jr

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Will Jurist

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Rita Sampson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Guy Vickers

    BOARD CHAIRM

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Larry Young

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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
    $1,635,698
    Expenses
    $1,708,148
    Contributions
    $1,635,698
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $983,780
    Expenses
    $1,338,764
    Contributions
    $983,780
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,794,317
    Expenses
    $1,585,103
    Contributions
    $1,794,212
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,794,317
    Expenses
    $1,585,103
    Contributions
    $1,794,212
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,794,317
    Expenses
    $1,585,103
    Contributions
    $1,794,212
    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
    $3,723,853
    Expenses
    $2,403,739
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,841,102

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,264,620
    Expenses
    $812,018
    Assets (EOY)
    $557,728

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $422,365
    Expenses
    $691,827
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,833

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $291,448
    Expenses
    $653,097
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,181

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $361,140
    Expenses
    $639,321
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $622,400
    Expenses
    $981,640
    Assets (EOY)
    $114,822

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $465,878
    Expenses
    $847,364
    Assets (EOY)
    $93,277

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $326,102
    Expenses
    $570,250
    Assets (EOY)
    $75,788

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.

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

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 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.