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AMERICAN AFFAIRS FOUNDATION INC

EIN 81-4814174 BOSTON, MA

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Revenue 2024
$967,638
Expenses 2024
$812,645

Program services were 88.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A33
Classification
2000
Street
1 BOSTON PL STE 2600

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

7 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 2600). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

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 · 2024

Mission

TO PUBLISH A PERIODICAL IN ONLINE, DIGITAL, PRINT, AND/OR OTHER FORMATS, AVAILABLE TO A GENERAL AUDIENCE, WITH ORIGINAL SCHOLARLY CONTENT MATTERS OF EDUCATIONAL, LITERACY, AND CIVIL IMPORTANCE: TO SUPPORT AND PROMOTE THE CONDUCT AND DISSEMINATION OF SAME,

  • AMERICAN AFFAIRS FOUNDATION INC. PUBLISHES A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PUBLIC POLICY AND POLITICAL THOUGHT, IN PRINT AND DIGITAL EDITIONS. THE JOURNAL WILL PUBLISH SCHOLARLY ESSAYS AND RESEARCH CONCERNING TOPICS OF A CIVIC EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND/OR LITERARY CHARACTER. THE ORGANIZATION MAY OCCASIONALLY PROVIDE FUNDING FOR RESEARCH SUPPORTING COMMISSIONED ARTICLES. THE ORGANIZATION MAY HOST COLLOQUIA CONFERENCES, PANEL DISCUSSIONS, OR OTHER EVENTS FOR THE DISCUSSION OF TOPICS RELATED TO PUBLIC POLICY AND POLITICAL THOUGHT AND ASSOCIATED SCHOLARLY THEMES.

    Expenses $721,705 · Grants $18,000 · Revenue $93,852

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.

  • Julius Krein

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Gladden Pappin

    CLERK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Christopher Laconi

    TREASURER

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $967,638
    Expenses
    $812,645
    Contributions
    $868,532
    Grants paid
    $18,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $303,810
    Expenses
    $614,505
    Contributions
    $215,912
    Grants paid
    $56,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $614,450
    Expenses
    $719,683
    Contributions
    $525,300
    Grants paid
    $91,000

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $853,454
    Expenses
    $694,412
    Assets (EOY)
    $541,740

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $852,617
    Expenses
    $573,766
    Assets (EOY)
    $352,952

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $487,190
    Expenses
    $504,952
    Assets (EOY)
    $137,431

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $482,069
    Expenses
    $535,529
    Assets (EOY)
    $54,637

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $601,762
    Expenses
    $560,832
    Assets (EOY)
    $46,703

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $601,762
    Expenses
    $539,999
    Assets (EOY)
    $60,036

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $21,850
    Expenses
    $241,427
    Assets (EOY)
    $55,584

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

  • W E UPJOHN INSTITUTE

    $35,000

    2022 RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING OF EDUCATION

  • CLAREMONT INSTITUTE

    $25,000

    2022 RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING OF CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY

  • RYAN RESEARCH LLC

    $12,000

    2022 RESEARCH /BOOK ON 19TH CENTURY ECONOMY

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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 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.