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ROOT CAUSE RESEARCH CENTER INC

EIN 61-1260839 LOUISVILLE, KY

Largest nonprofits in Kentucky

Revenue 2024
$323,949
Expenses 2024
$324,450

Program services were 75.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A20
Classification
1000
Street
2222 S 9TH ST

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

Root Cause Research Center - We build structured tenant-lead campaigns and produce knowledge in solidarity with communities under threat of displacement, surveillance, and police violence. We define our base-building practices as (1) expanding the number of people committed to struggling alongside you politically; (2) developing their skills, analysis, and leadership; and (3) deepening our relationships with them. Our base-building practices include regular canvasses and phone banks to connect with new people; deepening relationships with people in our base through regular one-on-ones; providing training for members to develop skills and analysis; and identifying members of our base to develop into leaders and working with them on leadership development plans. Our target base is poor and working-class people in Kentucky, who are impacted by houselessness and police violence, especially Black people and people living in rural areas. We build economic power by organizing tenant unions in

Activities or mission (Part I)

Accomplishments from July 24 - June 25:1. Passed the implementation of the AntiDisplacement Ordinance 2. Ratified a constitution unanimously and elected leadership 3. Launched statewide organizing campaign 4. Held 3 power and organizing trainings that trained 40 members across the state of KY 5. Hosted a National Tenant Union Federation retreat 6. Won over $1million in property repairs7. Built an at-large base running 11 teams (such as legal, rides, research, etc) to support building level work

  • Root Cause Research Center - We build structured tenant-lead campaigns and produce knowledge in solidarity with communities under threat of displacement, surveillance, and police violence. We define our base-building practices as (1) expanding the number of people committed to struggling alongside you politically; (2) developing their skills, analysis, and leadership; and (3) deepening our relationships with them. Our base-building practices include regular canvasses and phone banks to connect with new people; deepening relationships with people in our base through regular one-on-ones; providing training for members to develop skills and analysis; and identifying members of our base to develop into leaders and working with them on leadership development plans. Our target base is poor and working-class people in Kentucky, who are impacted by houselessness and police violence, especially Black people and people living in rural areas. We build economic power by organizing tenant unions in apartment buildings for collectively bargained leases and political power by fighting for policies that protect tenants.

    Expenses $244,758 · Revenue $260

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.

  • Linda Omer

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $78,500
    From this org
    $78,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Joshua Poe

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $73,749
    From this org
    $73,749
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Donna Goldsmith

    President

    Total calculated
    $27,083
    From this org
    $27,083
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    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, 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
    $323,949
    Expenses
    $324,450
    Contributions
    $323,949
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $355,460
    Expenses
    $275,838
    Contributions
    $355,460
    Grants paid
    $500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $224,058
    Expenses
    $199,173
    Contributions
    $224,058
    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
    $270,379
    Expenses
    $236,164
    Assets (EOY)
    $76,362

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $194,615
    Expenses
    $167,321
    Assets (EOY)
    $42,147

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $17,765
    Expenses
    $2,912
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,853

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2018

Tax period
1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019
Principal officer
David Coyte
Mailing address
PO Box 6115Louisville KY 40206
Website
cartky.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.