AMERICAN OVERSIGHT INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

R05

Classification

1200

Street

1030 15TH ST NW STE B255

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

• LEGAL & RESEARCH: AMERICAN OVERSIGHT CONDUCTS RESEARCH INTO GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS, FILES OPEN RECORDS REQUESTS TO OBTAIN INFORMATION FROM THE GOVERNMENT, AND LITIGATES TO ENFORCE THOSE OPEN RECORDS REQUESTS. THE ORGANIZATION HAS FILED MORE THAN 10,500 OPEN RECORDS REQUESTS SINCE 2017 AND OBTAINED MORE THAN 2,500,000 PAGES OF PUBLIC RECORDS.

  Expenses $3,343,972 · Revenue $257,045

• EDUCATION & OUTREACH: AMERICAN OVERSIGHT EDUCATES THE PUBLIC ABOUT OUR INVESTIGATIONS AND FINDINGS BY ENGAGING WITH THE NEWS MEDIA, OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, AND DIRECTLY VIA OUR WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS. THE ORGANIZATION MAINTAINS AN EXTENSIVE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE ONLINE LIBRARY OF DOCUMENTS OBTAINED VIA OUR OPEN RECORDS REQUESTS AND LITIGATION.

  Expenses $1,363,222

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. 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

  $7,325,072

  Expenses

  $6,427,951

  Contributions

  $6,822,087

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $6,584,630

  Expenses

  $5,867,553

  Contributions

  $6,266,384

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $7,956,031

  Expenses

  $6,230,637

  Contributions

  $7,736,212

  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

  $4,908,115

  Expenses

  $5,577,263

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,531,984

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,482,333

  Expenses

  $5,238,229

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,254,703

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,732,681

  Expenses

  $4,030,204

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,018,176

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,831,861

  Expenses

  $2,509,778

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,200,677

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,448,705

  Expenses

  $1,757,939

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,778,043

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

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $3,502,301

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $2,566,401

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $2,548,792

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• Our American Future Action

  $1,000,000

  2023 · general support

• SANDLER FOUNDATION

  $1,000,000

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• SANDLER FOUNDATION

  $500,000

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• SANDLER FOUNDATION

  $400,000

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• NEW VENTURE FUND

  $325,000

  2024 · CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION, ADVOCACY

• NEO PHILANTHROPY INC

  $200,000

  2022 · Program Grant

• PUBLIC WISE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND

  $75,000

  2022 · FINANCIAL SUPPORT

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

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