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MICHIGAN GUARDIANS OF DEMOCRACY

EIN 87-2431450 LANSING, MI

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Revenue 2022
$2,446,845
Expenses 2022
$3,378,385

Program services were 99.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Street
106 W ALLEGAN ST 200

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

5 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 · 2022

Mission

THE PURPOSE OF MIGHIGAN GUARDIANS OF DEMOCRACY IS TO OPERATE EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL WELFARE TO BENEFIT THE COMMON GOOD AND GENERAL WELFARE OF THE COMMUNITY AND MORE SPECIFICALLY TO FOSTER PUBLIC EDUCATION, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, AND ISSUE ADVOCACY ON MATTERS IMPACTING THE CITIZENS OF MICHIGAN. MICHIGAN GUARDIANS OF DEMOCRACY MAY NOT MAKE ANY EXPENDITURES FOR THE PURPOSE OF INFLUENCING THE ELECTION OR DEFEAT OF A CANDIDATE FOR PUBLIC OFFICE THAT WOULD CONSTITUTE EXPRESS ADVOCACY UNDER APPLICABLE CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROMOTE DEMOCRACY, FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS, AND THE GENERAL WELFARE OF THE CITIZENS OF MICHIGAN.

  • CONDUCTING AND DISSEMINATING RESEARCH, POLLING, AND POLICY PAPERS THAT FOCUS ON PUBLIC POLICY MATTERS IMPACTING THE CITIZENS OF MICHIGAN.

    Expenses $2,106,808

  • GRANTS AND DONATIONS TO ORGANIZATIONS WITH SIMILAR EXEMPT PURPOSES.

    Expenses $1,241,114 · Grants $1,241,114

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2022

As listed in Part VII of the 2022 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Ellen Kletzka

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Scott Greenlee

    VICE CHAIRPERSON/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Heather Lombardini

    CHAIRPERSON/PRESIDENT

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,446,845
    Expenses
    $3,378,385
    Contributions
    $2,446,845
    Grants paid
    $1,241,114

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
    $1,810,050
    Expenses
    $878,510
    Assets (EOY)
    $931,540

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

  • UNLOCK MICHIGAN

    $790,000

    2022 CONTRIBUTIONS TO SUPPORT ORGANIZATION'S EXEMPT PURPOSE.

  • SECURE MI VOTE

    $390,000

    2022 CONTRIBUTIONS TO SUPPORT ORGANIZATION'S EXEMPT PURPOSE.

  • LET MICHIGAN KIDS LEARN

    $50,000

    2022 CONTRIBUTIONS TO SUPPORT ORGANIZATION'S EXEMPT PURPOSE.

  • STAND UP MICHIGAN

    $6,000

    2022 CONTRIBUTIONS TO SUPPORT ORGANIZATION'S EXEMPT PURPOSE.

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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 2022 return

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 2022, the newest we have parsed for this organization.