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THE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION

EIN 74-2619883 AUSTIN, TX

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Revenue 2024
$1,106,093
Expenses 2024
$1,261,872

Program services were 69.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A33M
Classification
2000
Street
54 CHICON ST

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 FOSTER,PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, GOVERNMENT LITERATURE AND THE ARTS THROUGH THE PUBLICATION OF THE TEXAS OBSERVER, A PERIODICAL ADDRESSING PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO FOSTER,PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, GOVERNMENT, LITERATURE AND THE ARTS THROUGH THE PUBLICATION OF THE TEXAS OBSERVER, A BIMONTHLY PERIODICAL

  • PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY JOURNAL, THE TEXAS OBSERVER, SERVING 3,500 SUBSCRIBERS, DISTRIBUTING AN ADDITIONAL 1,500 COPIES THROUGH BOOKSTORES. FURNISHED COPIES TO EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS UPON REQUEST FOR USE IN CLASSROOMS.

    Expenses $871,958

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.

  • Lize Burr

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Terri Burke

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kathleen McElroy

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Carlton Carl

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark Horvit

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ashley Thomas

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Peter Ravella

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Skye Perryman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Loren Lynch

    EXEC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $121,800
    From this org
    $113,312
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,488
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $1,106,093
    Expenses
    $1,261,872
    Contributions
    $1,107,993
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,385,336
    Expenses
    $1,589,670
    Contributions
    $1,354,613
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,522,025
    Expenses
    $2,142,830
    Contributions
    $1,395,253
    Grants paid
    $291,831

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
    $1,907,878
    Expenses
    $1,812,945
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,291,717

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $888,552
    Expenses
    $735,221
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,168,893

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,292,814
    Expenses
    $1,360,643
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,082,587

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,271,093
    Expenses
    $1,181,352
    Assets (EOY)
    $963,261

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,210,292
    Expenses
    $1,160,031
    Assets (EOY)
    $861,715

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,210,292
    Expenses
    $1,160,031
    Assets (EOY)
    $861,715

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,074,378
    Expenses
    $906,419
    Assets (EOY)
    $803,401

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $772,362
    Expenses
    $1,001,140
    Assets (EOY)
    $587,137

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $940,888
    Expenses
    $953,838
    Assets (EOY)
    $831,199

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $807,853
    Expenses
    $936,401
    Assets (EOY)
    $934,628

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

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 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.