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RENEW DEMOCRACY INITIATIVE INC

EIN 82-2547275 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$4,950,170
Expenses 2024
$5,384,808

Program services were 87.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B60
Classification
2000
Street
1701 RHODE ISLAND AVE NW FLOOR 2

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

Mission

RDIs mission is to unmask and confront the alliance of dictators threatening freedom around the world. By doing so, we inspire those in the United States and in other countries to value and protect their own democracies.

  • As an idea advocacy organization, we align insightful analysis with direct action, unique advocacy networks, and a motivated community to influence national discourse and mobilize key stakeholders. This approach is reflected in our four pillars. Pillar 1 - Educate: We leverage the voices of unique messengers to organize events and create written and video content that highlights the threats facing liberal democracy while uniting disparate communities around common principles. Pillar 2 - Advocate: We aim to shift opinion and behavior among targeted groups of thought leaders, decision-makers, and other key constituencies on issues critical to RDIs mission. Pillar 3 - Act: When we can add unique value, we offer direct support to those whose

    Expenses $4,728,384

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.

  • Uriel Epshtein

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $250,625
    From this org
    $233,442
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,183
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $233,442
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $9,383
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,800
    Filer's total
    $250,625

  • Caitlin Forrest

    Director of Frontlines of Freedom

    Total calculated
    $113,234
    From this org
    $101,374
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,860
    Hours/week
    40

  • Tori James

    Director of Operations

    Total calculated
    $113,069
    From this org
    $101,219
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,850
    Hours/week
    40

  • Igor Kirman

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alexander Vindman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alisa Savetamal

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jordan Hymowitz

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mitzi Perdue

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • General Ben Hodges

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Garry Kasparov

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Linda Chavez

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Steele

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    not reported

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
    $4,950,170
    Expenses
    $5,384,808
    Contributions
    $5,126,557
    Grants paid
    $1,922,514
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,607,953
    Expenses
    $7,276,370
    Contributions
    $5,722,245
    Grants paid
    $4,721,052
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $10,493,875
    Expenses
    $6,664,575
    Contributions
    $10,477,391
    Grants paid
    $5,415,250

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
    $644,645
    Expenses
    $374,794
    Assets (EOY)
    $475,770

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $329,801
    Expenses
    $429,167
    Assets (EOY)
    $170,188

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $565,931
    Expenses
    $362,621
    Assets (EOY)
    $231,120

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $72,790
    Expenses
    $51,119
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,000

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

  • AMERICAN PURPOSE INC

    $325,000

    2022 To build, energize, and focus a coalition of like-minded individuals and organizations in support of Ukraine at a time when Ukraine fatigue is setting in and the German economy faces a serious stress test.

  • INSTITUTE OF MODERN RUSSIA INC

    $238,000

    2022 SUPPORT PROJECT SUNRISE WHICH DELIVERS CRITICALLY NEEDED HUMANITARIAN AID DIRECTLY TO THE REGIONS OF UKRAINE MOST AFFECTED BY THE WAR

  • VoteVets Action Fund

    $25,000

    2024

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