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INDEPENDENT CENTER

EIN 88-3103608 ALEXANDRIA, VA

Revenue 2024
$1,786,500
Expenses 2024
$1,884,208

Program services were 85.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R01
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 26141

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

30 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list 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

INDEPENDENT CENTER PROMOTES RESEARCH AND PUBLIC POLICY THAT STRENGTHENS THE AMERICAN MERITOCRACY AND EXPANDS CHOICE IN PUBLIC POLICY.

  • RESEARCH, POLLING AND FOCUS GROUPS: STUDY AND MONITOR THE VIEWS OF AMERICANS AT THE CENTER OF THE IDEOLOGICAL SPECTRUM. POLLS WILL BENEFIT THE PUBLIC BY GIVING A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE WAYS INDEPENDENT, NON-PARTISAN VOTERS FEEL ABOUT CURRENT EVENTS AND PUBLIC POLICY.

    Expenses $1,603,918

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.

  • Parissa Sedghi Fornwalt

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chris Marston

    SECRETARY AND TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Giancomo Fozzati

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Doug Rice

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lura Forcum

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $19,950
    From this org
    $19,950
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Adam Brandon

    SENIOR ADVISOR

    Total calculated
    $198,607
    From this org
    $198,607
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $198,607
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $198,607

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
    $1,786,500
    Expenses
    $1,884,208
    Contributions
    $1,786,500
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $607,000
    Expenses
    $178,521
    Contributions
    $607,000
    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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022

Tax period
1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022
Principal officer
Adam Brandon
Mailing address
PO Box 26141Alexandria VA 22313

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 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

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 2024 return

  • INDEPENDENT CENTER ACTION

    501(C)(4) · ADVOCACY · VA

  • INDEPENDENT POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

    527 · POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE · AL

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