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CICERO ACTION

EIN 85-4374227 AUSTIN, TX

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Revenue 2024
$5,952,372
Expenses 2024
$2,848,207

Program services were 58.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
W99
Classification
3000
Street
2112 RIO GRANDE ST

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 · 2024

Mission

CICERO ACTION IS A NONPROFIT, NONPARTISAN 501(C)(4) ORGANIZATION THAT OPERATES, ALONG WITH ITS RELATED AND INDEPENDENT 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATION CICERO RESEARCH, AS THE CICERO INSTITUTE. CICERO ACTION'S MISSION IS TO SUPPORT ACTIVITIES THAT EMBRACE THE PRINCIPLES OF A FREE SOCIETY AND PROMOTE THE PRINCIPLES OF LIBERTY, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND TRANSPARENCY TO FIX BROKEN PUBLIC SYSTEMS AND LIFT UP MILLIONS OF AMERICANS.

  • STATE OUTREACH / LOBBYING ENGAGEMENT:CICERO ACTION UNDERTOOK ACTIVITIES SUCH AS LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY, OUTREACH, AND EDUCATION.

    Expenses $1,675,161 · Revenue $55,000

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.

  • Joseph Lonsdale

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Blake Brickman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Charles Feng

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Dhani Jones

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Tayler Lonsdale

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Bryan Sunderland

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $298,089
    From this org
    $194,390
    From related orgs
    $68,735
    Other
    $34,964
    Hours/week
    30 + 10 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $159,390 + $68,735 related
    Bonus
    $35,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,900 + $2,839 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,871 + $7,354 related
    Filer's total
    $219,161 + $78,928 related
  • Ryan Vassar

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $296,866
    From this org
    $22,652
    From related orgs
    $239,348
    Other
    $34,866
    Hours/week
    3 + 37 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $22,652 + $214,348 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $25,000 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $1,391 + $7,692 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $3,949 + $21,834 related
    Filer's total
    $27,992 + $268,874 related
  • Whitney Munro

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,952,372
    Expenses
    $2,848,207
    Contributions
    $5,894,828
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,151,268
    Expenses
    $1,820,198
    Contributions
    $2,150,000
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,807,735
    Expenses
    $1,423,000
    Contributions
    $1,803,380
    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
    $1,302,418
    Expenses
    $573,967
    Assets (EOY)
    $747,060
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $0
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

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 2024 return

  • CICERO RESEARCH

    501(C)(3) · CREATES EDUCATIIONAL MATERIALS TO ADVANCE OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL · TX

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • ARPINUM

    C · EMPLOYMENT SERVICES · VA

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.