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RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY PROJECT INC

EIN 47-3746922 BURLINGTON, VT

Revenue 2024
$208,593
Expenses 2024
$231,549

Program services were 68.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Street
70 S WINOOSKI AVE 205

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

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists 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

THE RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY PROJECT (RAD) MISSION IS TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER TO TAKE ACTION TO BUILD HEALTHY COMMUNITIES AND MAKE THE VALUES OF OUR COMMUNITIES GUIDE THE POLICIES OF OUR GOVERNMENT. WE ARE BUILDING A POPULAR MOVEMENT TO ADVANCE RIGHTS AND BUILD A REAL DEMOCRACY. WE WORK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH COMMUNITY GROUPS, PROGRESSIVE UNIONS, FAITH COMMUNITIES, ORGANIZATIONS FIGHTING FOR HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE ACTION GROUPS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SEE PART III, LINE 1.

  • IN 2024, RAD CONDUCTED LOBBYING ACTIVITIES ON A VARIETY OF BILLS IN THE VERMONT AND NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATURES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: RENEWABLE ENERGY, TENANT EVICTION PROTECTIONS, LGBTQ+ RIGHTS, EDUCATION FUNDING, IMMIGRANT RIGHTS, THE STATE BUDGET, HEALTHCARE, REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, AND SCHOOL CURRICULUMS. RAD ALSO LOBBIED MEMBERS OF THE LANDLORD-TENANT LAW STUDY COMMITTEE, A STUDY COMMITTEE OF THE VERMONT STATE LEGISLATURE.RAD ALSO CONDUCTED A DOOR-KNOCKING CAMPAIGN IN SUPPORT OF SIX STATE LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, WHERE WE KNOCKED ON OVER 4,500 DOORS AND HAD MORE THAN 1,100 CONVERSATIONS. THESE FACE-TO-FACE DISCUSSIONS HELPED US CONNECT WITH NEIGHBORS ON ISSUES LIKE AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE, HOUSING, GOOD JOBS, AND CLIMATE JUSTICE - WHILE HIGHLIGHTING CANDIDATES WHO SHARE OUR VISION.

    Expenses $157,564

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.

  • Ed Taylor

    NH CO-CHAIR (TO 10/24/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jaime Contois

    VT CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Dana Hackett

    NH CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Barb Wilson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Susmik Lama

    SECRETARY (FROM 10/23/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jolene Osborne

    DIRECTOR (TO 8/28/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joanna Grossman

    DIRECTOR (TO 8/27/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mk Kilcoyne

    DIRECTOR (TO 8/23/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alison Nihart

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $16,283
    From this org
    $13,300
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,983
    Hours/week
    3.2

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
    $208,593
    Expenses
    $231,549
    Contributions
    $208,313
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $224,345
    Expenses
    $266,989
    Contributions
    $219,748
    Grants paid
    $77,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $635,446
    Expenses
    $1,019,344
    Contributions
    $633,984
    Grants paid
    $98,000

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
    $1,026,622
    Expenses
    $826,316
    Assets (EOY)
    $515,432

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $801,313
    Expenses
    $1,124,523
    Assets (EOY)
    $307,578

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,086,299
    Expenses
    $560,279
    Assets (EOY)
    $665,101

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $657,686
    Expenses
    $812,055
    Assets (EOY)
    $34,100

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $856,491
    Expenses
    $673,855
    Assets (EOY)
    $259,195

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $664,452
    Expenses
    $648,299
    Assets (EOY)
    $153,335

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $207,719
    Expenses
    $150,362
    Assets (EOY)
    $77,419

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

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Grants received

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

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 2022 return

Declared as related by

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