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COMMON SENSE AMERICA INC

EIN 87-4615274 Mc Lean, VA

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Revenue 2024
$272,333
Expenses 2024
$527,705

Program services were 94.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Street
COMMON SENSE AMERICA INC STE 515

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

Common Sense America's mission to receive and spend funds to educate the public on issues that affect citizens' lives and well-being and their relationship to public policies espoused by and enacted by elected officials.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Common Sense Americas mission to receive and spend funds to educate the public on issues that affect citizens lives and wellbeing and their relationship to public policies espoused by and enacted by elected officials

  • 1.Launched the national organization. Began building a nationwide network of support. 2.Promoted common sense ideas and solutions to hundreds of thousands of people across the country. 3.Supported like-minded organizations pushing for common sense solutions across the country.

    Expenses $473,834

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.

  • Steven Crim

    PresidentDirector

    Total calculated
    $25,000
    From this org
    $25,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Melodie Johnson

    SecretaryTreasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $272,333
    Expenses
    $527,705
    Contributions
    $272,333
    Grants paid
    $10,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,334,500
    Expenses
    $1,052,797
    Contributions
    $1,334,500
    Grants paid
    $50,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,625,000
    Expenses
    $2,600,793
    Contributions
    $2,625,000
    Grants paid
    $2,455,306

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

  • AMERICA'S PROMISE

    $1,700,000

    2022 See Part IV

  • COMMON SENSE AMERICA ELECT

    $755,306

    2022 See Part IV

  • NO CASINOS INC

    $50,000

    2023 General support

Where these grants went next →

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

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.