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SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS EDUCATION FUND

EIN 46-1500551 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2024
$4,021,309
Expenses 2024
$2,000,040

Program services were 90.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W05
Classification
1000
Street
815 16TH STREET NW 4TH FLOOR

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

TO EDUCATE THE GENERAL PUBLIC, MEDIA, AND POLICY-MAKERS ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF PROTECTING SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS; TO PROTECT AND IMPROVE THE ECONOMIC STATUS OF DISADVANTAGED AND AT-RISK POPULATIONS, AND, IN SO DOING, TO PROMOTE SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS OF CHILDREN AS WELL AS YOUNG, MIDDLE-AGED AND OLDER ADULTS; TO OPPOSE ANY CUTS TO SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS, INCLUDING INCREASING THE RETIREMENT AGE AND OPPOSE ANY EFFORT TO PRIVATIZE SOCIAL SECURITY. THIS CORPORATION IS ORGANIZED AND OPERATED EXCLUSIVELY FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 501(C)(3) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO EDUCATE THE GENERAL PUBLIC, MEDIA, AND POLICY-MAKERS ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF PROTECTING SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS.

  • THE SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS EDUCATION FUND CREATED NUMEROUS WRITTEN POLICY RESOURCES EXPLAINING COMPLEX POLICY ISSUES IN ACCESSIBLE EVERDAY LANGUAGE. SSW EF CREATED NUMEROUS FACT SHEETS AND RESOURCES THAT WERE CRUCIAL IN THE POLITICALLY CHARGED AND FAST-MOVING ENVIRONMENTS OF VARIOUS BUDGET AND FISCAL DEBATES IN WASHINGTON, D. C. SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS EDUCATION FUND ALSO EDUCATED THE PUBLIC THROUGH MORE THAN TWENTY IN-PERSON TRAININGS, AND BY SPONSORING A RADIO SHOW, THE ZERO HOUR, DEDICATED TO STRENGTHENING THE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT AROUND ISSUES OF ECONOMIC JUSTICE, PARTICULARLY PROPOSALS THAT WOULD IMPACT OUR SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM.

    Expenses $1,802,339 · Revenue $4,019,151

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.

  • Richard Arenberg

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kathleen Currie

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Phelan

    OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $172,201
    From this org
    $172,201
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $172,201
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $172,201

  • Alexander Lawson

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $189,362
    From this org
    $189,362
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $189,362
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $189,362

  • Eric Kingson

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Nancy Altman

    VICE-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jonathan Ball

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $4,021,309
    Expenses
    $2,000,040
    Contributions
    $4,019,151
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $515,086
    Expenses
    $909,802
    Contributions
    $515,045
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $509,170
    Expenses
    $843,663
    Contributions
    $508,834
    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
    $668,742
    Expenses
    $738,142
    Assets (EOY)
    $686,753

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,313,472
    Expenses
    $1,874,100
    Assets (EOY)
    $823,406

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $773,575
    Expenses
    $559,963
    Assets (EOY)
    $223,881

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $743,944
    Expenses
    $1,003,065
    Assets (EOY)
    $233,803

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $118,993
    Expenses
    $428,847
    Assets (EOY)
    $330,548

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $337,252
    Expenses
    $118,739
    Assets (EOY)
    $535,544

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $207,523
    Expenses
    $82,357
    Assets (EOY)
    $334,431

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 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
Wendell Potter
Mailing address
614 South StreetPhiladelphia PA 19147
Website
www.blhct.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.

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

  • SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS

    501(C)(4) · ADVOCACY ON ISSUES RE SOCIAL SECURITY · DC

  • SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS PAC

    527 · SUPPORT SOCIAL SECURITY · DC

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

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 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.