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DEMOCRACY FUND INC

EIN 38-3926408 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2024
$63,960,855
Expenses 2024
$61,588,535

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1200
Street
1200 17TH ST NW STE 300

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

This address is a suite or unit (STE 300). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

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.

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.

  • Patricia Christen

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.46
  • Joseph Goldman

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $575,366
    Compensation
    $520,858
    Benefit plans
    $54,508
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    28
  • Deepa Isac

    General Counsel & Secretary

    Total calculated
    $350,495
    Compensation
    $311,569
    Benefit plans
    $38,926
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    36
  • Robin Thompson

    Treasurer & Senior Director of Finance

    Total calculated
    $274,835
    Compensation
    $240,688
    Benefit plans
    $34,147
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    36
  • Danielle Allen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $20,000
    Compensation
    $20,000
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Crystal Hayling

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Deepak Bhargava

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

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
    $63,960,855
    Expenses
    $61,588,535
    Contributions
    $63,363,700
    Grants paid
    $37,719,319
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,515,339
    Expenses
    $100,001,045
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $77,161,421
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $68,592,390
    Expenses
    $62,022,102
    Contributions
    $70,685,900
    Grants paid
    $41,451,118

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-PF

    Revenue
    $59,747,292
    Expenses
    $59,595,833
    Assets (EOY)
    $93,636,268
  • 2020 · 990-PF

    Revenue
    $65,793,183
    Expenses
    $72,150,532
    Assets (EOY)
    $83,492,609
  • 2020 · 990-PF

    Revenue
    $65,793,183
    Expenses
    $72,150,532
    Assets (EOY)
    $83,492,609
  • 2019 · 990-PF

    Revenue
    $63,141,642
    Expenses
    $56,331,961
    Assets (EOY)
    $87,348,415
  • 2018 · 990-PF

    Revenue
    $73,959,277
    Expenses
    $55,621,199
    Assets (EOY)
    $78,786,166
  • 2018 · 990-PF

    Revenue
    $73,959,277
    Expenses
    $55,621,199
    Assets (EOY)
    $78,786,166
  • 2017 · 990-PF

    Revenue
    $53,135,469
    Expenses
    $47,424,736
    Assets (EOY)
    $61,426,000
  • 2016 · 990-PF

    Revenue
    $38,655,163
    Expenses
    $20,383,089
    Assets (EOY)
    $50,547,590
  • 2015 · 990-PF

    Revenue
    $22,308,429
    Expenses
    $15,818,008
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,172,688

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 paid

From Part XV of the 2024 Form 990-PF , the newest this foundation filed that we hold.

  • New Venture Fund

    $1,500,000

    Washington, DC Program support for Trusted Elections Fund

  • Solutions Project Inc

    $1,500,000

    Oakland, CA Program support to advance climate and migrant justice

  • Borealis Philanthropy

    $1,020,000

    Minneapolis, MN Program support for the Racial Equity in Journalism Fund

  • JustFundUs

    $934,000

    Oakland, CA Program support for Building Power Fund

  • Hopewell Fund

    $750,000

    Washington, DC Program Support for Free Election Fund

  • The Project on Government Oversight Inc

    $750,000

    Washington, DC General support

  • New Venture Fund

    $720,000

    Washington, DC Program support for Future Currents

  • Democracy Forward Foundation

    $700,000

    Washington, DC General support

  • Free Press

    $700,000

    Washington, DC General support

  • Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

    $600,000

    Washington, DC General support

The 10 largest to organizations. The filing page shows this return's totals, and the API serves every grant row.

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 11 November 2026, under deductibility POF.

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.