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RUNNING START

EIN 20-8666097 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$1,334,083
Expenses 2024
$1,224,652

Program services were 78.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O50
Classification
2100
Street
1763 COLUMBIA RD NW

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

Running Start is a nonpartisan nonprofit that trains young women to run for political office. Running Starts programs empower participants with the confidence capabilities connections and civic discourse skills they need to run win and lead!

  • Running Starts High School Program trains young women to run for office through a months-long team-based campaign simulation. Each year 50-75 high school young women learn from 100+ speakers trainers and mentors. Participants convene in Washington DC and meet their Member of Congress. Since 2007 750+ young women have graduated from Running Starts High School Program.

    Expenses $279,589 · Revenue $56,250

  • The Congressional Fellowship includes a semester-long internship with a Member of Congress and a week of intense training and networking in Washington DC. Congressional Fellows practice real-world campaign skills through a campaign simulation and get weekly training on how to run for office from mentors and alums. Since 2009 185+ Congressional Fellows have interned in the offices of 95+ Members of Congress. Walmart is the founding partner of the Congressional Fellowship and has provided $2,500,000+ of funding.

    Expenses $264,564 · Grants $19,500

  • Elect Her is a daylong training for college women on how to run for student government and beyond. Each year 50 Elect Her trainings are held around the country. Since 2009 500+ Elect Her trainings have been held in 43 states and 10 countries with 180+ partners for 20,000+ participants.

    Expenses $151,573 · Grants $1,400 · Revenue $20,000

  • The HBCU Women Leaders Summit brings together politically ambitious women for a two day training each fall. Each year 50-75 emerging leaders from 25+ different HBCUs attend the training in Washington DC. The HBCU Women Leaders Summit has been hosted since 2020 in partnership with Xceleader an organization cofounded by Running Start alum Jade Agudosi.

    Expenses $131,731

  • Next Step was a Running Start program for young professional women in 2010. This year Running Start has revamped Next Step as a pilot program for 20 Running Start alums to give them additional training and leadership opportunities. Next Step pilot participants received monthly training on how to run for office served as leaders and mentors in other programs and attended international conferences.

    Expenses $128,534

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.

  • Susannah Wellford

    CEO Founder

    Total calculated
    $151,294
    From this org
    $141,933
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,361
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $141,933
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,361
    Filer's total
    $151,294

  • Tasha Cole

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Congresswoman Ileana RosLehtinen

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Isaac Fordjour

    Board Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Charlotte Clymer

    Board Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Karen Goldmeier Green

    Board Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LaKeitha Anderson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Harmony Barbera

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rosemary Becchi

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Allyson Carpenter

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jessica Grounds

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sohini Gupta

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alethia Jackson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Erica Johnson Creamer

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jim Loi

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ashley McNeil

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Pepper Natonski

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lucinda Robb

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leigh Tenewitz Calvo

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Zoe Glas

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Angela Baker

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $1,334,083
    Expenses
    $1,224,652
    Contributions
    $1,324,551
    Grants paid
    $20,900
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,075,932
    Expenses
    $984,327
    Contributions
    $1,069,258
    Grants paid
    $24,450

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
    $1,112,739
    Expenses
    $1,096,799
    Assets (EOY)
    $198,495

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,191,756
    Expenses
    $1,280,041
    Assets (EOY)
    $301,098

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,035,244
    Expenses
    $1,014,189
    Assets (EOY)
    $439,213

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $474,411
    Expenses
    $414,407
    Assets (EOY)
    $286,272

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

  • Xceleader

    $7,500

    2022 Running Start partnered with Xceleader on a day-long training for women at HBCUs on 11/11/2022. Running Start gave a grant to Xcelader, equal to half the sponsorship from BET for this event.

Where these grants went next →

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