- Revenue 2024
- $2,965,040
- Expenses 2024
- $2,656,681
Program services were 79.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 04
- NTEE code
- R99
- Classification
- 3000
- Street
- 611 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE SE 201
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
1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists 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.
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FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS USA INC
EIN 88-2257489
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Secure Democracy USA is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works to build stronger elections, state by state.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Nonpartisan organization that works to build stronger elections, state by state.
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State Policy Change: Efforts undertaken to advance or defeat election law-related legislative priorities and/or contribute to the implementation of new election laws in a specific subset of states.
Expenses $1,834,207 · Grants $46,932
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Election Crisis Response: Research, analysis, and public education to protect elections.
Expenses $264,963
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.
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Megan Lewis
Executive Director/Director
- Total calculated
- $283,815
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $268,103
- Other
- $15,712
- Hours/week
- 8 + 32 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $268,103 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0 + $11,771 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $3,941 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $283,815 related
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Brina Milikosky
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3 + 6 related
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Zach Silk
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3 + 6 related
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Tshombe Hubbard
Chief Administrative Officer
- Total calculated
- $364,469
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $309,421
- Other
- $55,048
- Hours/week
- 8 + 32 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $275,000 related
- Bonus
- $0 + $34,421 related
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0 + $9,361 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $45,687 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $364,469 related
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Samantha Tarazi
Chief Operating Officer
- Total calculated
- $244,737
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $205,434
- Other
- $39,303
- Hours/week
- 8 + 32 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $205,434 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0 + $9,457 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $29,846 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $244,737 related
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Megan Bellamy
Vice President of Law & Policy
- Total calculated
- $265,607
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $215,142
- Other
- $50,465
- Hours/week
- 8 + 32 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $210,000 related
- Bonus
- $0 + $5,142 related
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0 + $13,197 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $37,268 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $265,607 related
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Amanda Harrington
Vice President of Communications
- Total calculated
- $239,658
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $219,118
- Other
- $20,540
- Hours/week
- 8 + 32 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $210,000 related
- Bonus
- $0 + $9,118 related
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0 + $10,741 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $9,799 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $239,658 related
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Alexander Lee
Chief People Officer
- Total calculated
- $265,966
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $224,016
- Other
- $41,950
- Hours/week
- 8 + 32 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $210,000 related
- Bonus
- $0 + $14,016 related
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0 + $13,373 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $28,577 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $265,966 related
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James Griffith
Senior Director of Law and Policy
- Total calculated
- $234,548
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $200,020
- Other
- $34,528
- Hours/week
- 8 + 32 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $200,020 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0 + $7,923 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $26,605 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $234,548 related
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Charlotte Olena
Vice President of Advocacy
- Total calculated
- $246,270
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $224,235
- Other
- $22,035
- Hours/week
- 8 + 32 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $210,000 related
- Bonus
- $0 + $14,235 related
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0 + $13,321 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $8,714 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $246,270 related
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $2,965,040
- Expenses
- $2,656,681
- Contributions
- $2,965,040
- Grants paid
- $46,932
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2023
- Revenue
- $4,053,961
- Expenses
- $2,879,459
- Contributions
- $3,955,005
- Grants paid
- $31,750
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2023
- Revenue
- $4,053,961
- Expenses
- $2,942,012
- Contributions
- $3,956,111
- Grants paid
- $31,750
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2022
- Revenue
- $4,841,377
- Expenses
- $5,320,235
- Contributions
- $4,841,377
- Grants paid
- $100,000
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,000,000
- Expenses
- $274,489
- Assets (EOY)
- $725,511
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
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2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
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$31,750
2023 Legislative Support 2024
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$31,250
2024 Support advocacy programs
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$20,000
2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
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2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
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$15,000
2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
Grants received
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$825,000
2024 To provide support for in-state policy change efforts.
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$750,000
2023 general support
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$500,000
2024 CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION, ADVOCACY
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$450,000
2023 To provide support for in-state legislative efforts
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FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS USA INC
$300,000
2022 GENERAL OPERATIONS
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$260,000
2022 CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION, ADVOCACY
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$200,000
2022 CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION, ADVOCACY
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2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
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$67,000
2024 TO SUPPORT PROGRAM ACTIVITIES PERMISSIBLE UNDER SECTION 501(C)(4) OF THE CODE.
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$50,000
2023 CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION, ADVOCACY
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
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 2024 return
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501(c)(3) · Expert Analysis Research on Election Related Law · DC · controlled entity
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Free and Fair Elections USA Inc
501(c)(4) · Buiding Trust in Elections · DE · controlled entity
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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.