AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION

As filed

Subsection

04

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 17148

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).

Group exemption

A subordinate covered by the group exemption of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC (EIN 13-3871360). matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

Mission and programs · 2024

• COMMUNICATIONS -THROUGH TARGETED COMMUNICATIONS, AND TRADITIONAL AND ONLINE MEDIA, THE ACLU OF ARIZONA HELPS INFORM THE PUBLIC ABOUT CURRENT OR PROPOSED LAWS, POLICIES OR BALLOT MEASURES THAT IMPACT CIVIL LIBERTIES. WE WORK TO INFLUENCE ELECTED OFFICIALS AND POLICYMAKERS AT THE LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL LEVELS TO PROTECT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND USE A VARIETY OF COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGIES TO ENGAGE OUR MEMBERS, (WHICH TOTALED 20,635 IN 2025) AND SUPPORTERS IN ADVOCACY AND LOBBYING, CHANGING PUBLIC OPINION, RESPONDING TO CIVIL LIBERTIES-RELATED NEWS ITEMS AND INFLUENCING DECISION MAKERS. THE ACLU OF ARIZONA AND 36,438 SUBSCRIBERS ON OUR EMAIL LIST AND MAINTAINED A WEBSITE THAT ATTRACTED 343,192 HITS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AND HAD 29,500 SOCIAL MEDIA FOLLOWERS.

  Expenses $1,128,777 · Grants $1,000,000

• POLICY -THE ACLU OF ARIZONA LOBBIES ARIZONA LEGISLATORS AND MEMBERS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT BODIES, INCLUDING SCHOOL BOARDS, TO TAKE ACTION ON PUBLIC POLICIES THAT IMPACT CIVIL LIBERTIES. WE ENGAGE IN RESEARCH AND POLICY ANALYSIS TO DEVELOP AND DRAFT POLICIES AND TAKE POSITIONS AND ACTIONS ON BALLOT MEASURES THAT IMPACT CIVIL LIBERTIES. DURING THE 2025 FISCAL YEAR, THE ACLU OF ARIZONA'S LOBBYING-RELATED ACTIVITIES INCLUDED TESTIFYING 70 TIMES BEFORE MEMBERS OF THE ARIZONA LEGISLATURE AND SUBMITTING 176 WRITTEN RECOMMENDATIONS TO THOSE ELECTED OFFICIALS. DURING THE 2025 SESSION, THE ACLU OF ARIZONA ASSISTED IN DEFEATING 105 OF THE BILLS WE OPPOSED THAT WOULD HAVE THREATENED CIVIL LIBERTIES, TRACKED 553 BILLS, DRAFTED 4 PIECES OF LEGISLATION, AND SENT 9 VETO LETTERS.

  Expenses $188,373

• ORGANIZING -THE ACLU OF ARIZONA UTILIZES GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM TO RECRUIT, TRAIN AND MOBILIZE ACLU MEMBERS AND ACTIVISTS IN THE FIGHT TO PROTECT OUR CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES. WE BELIEVE IN ELEVATING THE VOICES OF DIRECTLY IMPACTED PEOPLE TO SHARE THEIR STORIES, HELP DEVELOP POLICY GOALS AND LEAD DISCUSSIONS WITH POLICYMAKERS. THROUGH A VARIETY OF OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY-BASED ACTIVITIES INCLUDING TRAINING, PHONE BANKS, WORKSHOPS, COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND CONVERSATIONS, THE ACLU OF ARIZONA RECRUITS, TRAINS AND DEVELOPS VOLUNTEER LEADERS, WHILE ALSO EDUCATING PEOPLE IN COMMUNITIES STATEWIDE ABOUT THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND IMPORTANT CIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES. AS PART OF OUR ORGANIZING/ADVOCACY EFFORTS, WE MAINTAINED 349 VOLUNTEERS TO LEAD OUR ADVOCACY EFFORTS AND CONDUCTED 110 ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS TO EXPAND OUR VOLUNTEER/LEADER BASE.

  Expenses $90,681

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.

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

  $1,485,586

  Expenses

  $1,552,514

  Contributions

  $1,281,281

  Grants paid

  $1,000,000

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,227,007

  Expenses

  $929,443

  Contributions

  $1,134,167

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,471,333

  Expenses

  $1,313,886

  Contributions

  $1,445,176

  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

  $2,374,883

  Expenses

  $980,114

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,958,816

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,750,049

  Expenses

  $1,184,344

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,591,210

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,129,015

  Expenses

  $1,077,577

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,088,898

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,783,321

  Expenses

  $1,002,336

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,933,480

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,818,908

  Expenses

  $643,772

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,491,939

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $694,860

  Expenses

  $84,725

  Assets (EOY)

  $971,341

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $164,015

  Expenses

  $99,272

  Assets (EOY)

  $356,449

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $311,642

  Expenses

  $237,113

  Assets (EOY)

  $317,816

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $171,489

  Expenses

  $205,322

  Assets (EOY)

  $218,486

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

• ACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA

  $1,000,000

  2024 · TO SUPPORT OPERATIONS

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Grants received

• AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC

  $450,000

  2023 · Affiliate Program

• AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC

  $115,000

  2022 · Affiliate Program

• AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC

  $111,118

  2024 · AFFILIATE PROGRAM

• AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC

  $15,000

  2022 · Charitable Activities

• PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF ARIZONA

  $15,000

  2022 · SUPPORT OF UNIVISION TOWNHALL

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.

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