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PUBLIC INTEREST FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION

EIN 81-3033585 ARLINGTON, VA

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Revenue 2024
$4,153,194
Expenses 2024
$4,455,229

Program services were 98.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B12
Classification
2000
Street
2200 WILSON BLVD STE 102 PMB 218

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

THE PUBLIC INTEREST FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION (TPIFF) DRAWS ON THE LEGACY OF THAT GREAT JOURNAL OF IDEAS AND POLICY FOUNDED BY DANIEL BELL AND IRVING KRISTOL. THIS LEGACY NOURISHED GENERATIONS OF INDIVIDUALS DEDICATED TO MEETING THE MORAL AND CULTURAL CHALLENGES OF THE DAY THROUGH THE RIGOROUS STUDY OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICA AND RECLAIMING OF THE ENDURING PRINCIPLES OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL TRADITION. CONCEIVED IN THAT SPIRIT, TPIFF PROVIDES EXCEPTIONAL YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WITH PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AND A CONTINUING EDUCATION IN THE TRADITION OF FREEDOM. THE UNIQUE COMBINATION OF WORK AND STUDY IS DESIGNED TO ADVANCE A FELLOW'S PURSUIT OF CAREERS DEVOTED TO ENRICHING THE CULTURAL LIFE OF THE UNITED STATES.

  • RETREATS - TPIFF HOSTED THREE RETREATS THAT COVERED PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE RELATED TO CRITICAL POLICY ISSUES.

    Expenses $1,556,168 · Grants $306,236 · Revenue $5,385

  • PUBLICATIONS - THE FELLOWS WORKED FULL-TIME WITH PUBLICATIONS, THINK-TANKS, AND OBJECTIVE NON-PARTISAN POLICY FIRMS OVER THE COURSE OF A YEAR.

    Expenses $1,524,777 · Grants $300,058 · Revenue $5,276

  • SEMINARS - FELLOWS STUDIED POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, POLICY, AND HISTORY. EACH WEEK OF THE PROGRAM, THEY WERE REQUIRED TO PRODUCE WEEKLY WRITTEN RESPONSES, TO ENGAGE IN CLOSE TEXT STUDY, AND TO DEBATE WITH EACH OTHER.

    Expenses $1,310,201 · Grants $257,832 · Revenue $4,533

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.

  • Peter Berkowitz

    DIRECTOR, VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Aaron MacLean

    DIRECTOR, TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jay Kramer

    DIRECTOR, SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Eliana Johnson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Garrett Exner

    PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $199,568
    From this org
    $173,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,068
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $173,500
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,068
    Filer's total
    $199,568

  • Harry Cohen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Sarah Beraha

    DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $142,066
    From this org
    $115,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,066
    Hours/week
    40

  • Serena Frechterpfeiffer

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR (UNTIL 05/25)

    Total calculated
    $134,468
    From this org
    $134,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $468
    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. 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
    $4,153,194
    Expenses
    $4,455,229
    Contributions
    $4,138,000
    Grants paid
    $864,126
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,715,209
    Expenses
    $4,811,658
    Contributions
    $2,710,000
    Grants paid
    $985,297
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,164,016
    Expenses
    $3,488,957
    Contributions
    $6,153,700
    Grants paid
    $607,967
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,018,360
    Expenses
    $2,471,064
    Contributions
    $3,015,000
    Grants paid
    $333,575

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
    $2,149,386
    Expenses
    $2,291,098
    Assets (EOY)
    $347,923

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,009,120
    Expenses
    $762,431
    Assets (EOY)
    $359,525

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,294,646
    Expenses
    $1,261,107
    Assets (EOY)
    $113,830

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $892,951
    Expenses
    $895,713
    Assets (EOY)
    $78,206

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,207,504
    Expenses
    $1,226,455
    Assets (EOY)
    $81,323

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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.