ADVOCATES FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1000

Street

500 CAPITOL MALL STE 2050

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

• Digital Outreach: Attracted 878,000 new visitors to our website theadvocates.org, with over 2.4 million unique pageviews. Our World's Smallest Political Quiz, which educates students, teachers, and the general public about five distinct political philosophies, was taken by 540,000 unique users at our website. Across social media platforms, we reached an audience of more than 50 million people with our digital content.

  Expenses $261,314

• Other Content and Programming:Improved our website, theadvocates.org and expanded our "Quiz Engagement Program" to include more information for audiences to understand and compare their political viewpoints. Released new political opinion surveys to gauge the public's views and opinions about important civic and social issues; the results are shared with and available to the general public.

  Expenses $245,971 · Grants $25,000

• Other Educational Programs:Distributed Operation: Politically Homeless kits to various nonpartisan individuals and student activist groups for use in educating the public about libertarian ideas and important civic issues. Each kit reaches an average of several hundreds of individuals. Sold or distributed outreach materials including quiz cards, posters, books, and other supplementary educational materials to teachers and educators.

  Expenses $14,301 · Revenue $1,440

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.

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

  $1,012,590

  Expenses

  $671,950

  Contributions

  $1,010,421

  Grants paid

  $25,000

• 2023

  Revenue

  $861,466

  Expenses

  $772,703

  Contributions

  $860,940

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $444,303

  Expenses

  $639,324

  Contributions

  $440,758

  Grants paid

  $0

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

  $908,718

  Expenses

  $882,837

  Assets (EOY)

  $261,060

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $359,218

  Expenses

  $364,528

  Assets (EOY)

  $227,920

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $367,493

  Expenses

  $302,195

  Assets (EOY)

  $233,230

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $248,342

  Expenses

  $267,292

  Assets (EOY)

  $167,932

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $265,749

  Expenses

  $126,341

  Assets (EOY)

  $186,882

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $223,188

  Expenses

  $286,637

  Assets (EOY)

  $47,474

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

• International Society for Individual Liberty Inc

  $25,000

  2024 · Event Sponsorship- Liberty International

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Grants received

• DONORS TRUST INC

  $350,100

  2024 · for general operations

• DONORS TRUST INC

  $181,200

  2023 · for general operations

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.

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