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DEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT INC

EIN 27-0042821 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$2,946,164
Expenses 2024
$1,581,739

Program services were 81.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R20
Classification
1200
Street
1455 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW STE 400

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).

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.

  • Darakshan Raja

    Director, MJF Proj

    Total calculated
    $153,281
    From this org
    $145,047
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,234
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $145,047
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,234
    Filer's total
    $153,281

  • Susan Udry

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $142,673
    From this org
    $123,726
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,947
    Hours/week
    40

  • Charles Gibbons

    Policy Director

    Total calculated
    $122,557
    From this org
    $114,457
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,100
    Hours/week
    40

  • Shannon Al-Wakeel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shahid Buttar

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Arun Gupta

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeffrey Sterling

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sascha Meinrath

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jilisa Milton

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Donald Goldhamer

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mike Rufo

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Fadi Saba

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Emily Berman

    Vice President

    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. 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
    $2,946,164
    Expenses
    $1,581,739
    Contributions
    $2,853,222
    Grants paid
    $51,346
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,379,891
    Expenses
    $1,198,452
    Contributions
    $1,347,786
    Grants paid
    $35,685
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,379,891
    Expenses
    $1,198,452
    Contributions
    $1,347,786
    Grants paid
    $35,685
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,024,273
    Expenses
    $924,575
    Contributions
    $1,007,385
    Grants paid
    $44,354

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
    $959,051
    Expenses
    $678,149
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,957,495

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $721,476
    Expenses
    $789,612
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,468,879

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,598,952
    Expenses
    $408,964
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,417,189

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $336,308
    Expenses
    $261,488
    Assets (EOY)
    $210,958

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $240,973
    Expenses
    $163,447
    Assets (EOY)
    $142,649

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $271,003
    Expenses
    $277,535
    Assets (EOY)
    $83,901

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $400,274
    Expenses
    $439,563
    Assets (EOY)
    $137,077

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

  • DC Alliance against Racist an

    $15,000

    2024 police accountability in DC

  • DC Alliance

    $15,000

    2023 Education and grassroots organizing in Washington DC for police accountability

  • COMM PARTNERS

    $10,000

    2022 JUSTICE

  • THE PERSON CENTE

    $7,703

    2022 JUSTICE

  • SOCIAL GOOD FUND

    $5,000

    2022 JUSTICE

  • HEART WOMEN & GI

    $5,000

    2022 JUSTICE

  • no cash amount reported

    2022

  • no cash amount reported

    2022

  • no cash amount reported

    2022

  • no cash amount reported

    2022

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.