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EDUCATION REFORM NOW INC

EIN 20-3687838 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2024
$5,733,247
Expenses 2024
$13,628,995

Program services were 75.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B052
Classification
2000
Street
276 5TH AVE RM 704 PMB 915

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

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (RM 704). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

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

OUR MISSION IS TO CREATE PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION CHANGE AT BOTH THE FEDERAL LEVEL AND IN STATES ACROSS THE COUNTRY AT EVERY STAGE FROM K-12 TO HIGHER-ED TO ENSURE AMERICANS OF ALL AGES, FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE, GAINS FULL AND FAIR ACCESS TO A GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE HIGH-QUALITY PUBLIC EDUCATION THAT EMPOWERS THEM TO FULFILL THEIR LIMITLESS POTENTIAL.

Activities or mission (Part I)

DRIVE POLICIES AND PRACTICES THAT STIMULATE THE CREATION OF NEW, ACCOUNTABLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

  • EDUCATION REFORM NOW, INC. (ERN) WORKS TO INFORM, EDUCATE, AND PUT FORTH IDEAS AROUND PUBLIC EDUCATION POLICY. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS GOAL ERN BUILDS A DURABLE NETWORK OF PROGRESSIVE CHAMPIONS IN THE EDUCATIONAL POLICYMAKING ARENA TO EXPAND WHAT WORKS AND CHANGE WHAT IS BROKEN FOR THE BENEFIT OF STUDENTS AND FAMILIES WITH A FOCUS ON PEOPLE OF COLOR. ERN'S WORK IS FOCUSED IN THE FOLLOWING BROAD AREAS: POLICY ACTION, LEADERSHIP NETWORKING AND COLLABORATION, COMMUNICATIONS, AND COALITION BUILDING. WITHIN POLICY ACTION ERN'S PRIMARY GOAL IS TO RESEARCH AND IMPLEMENT AT THE NATIONAL AND STATE LEVEL STUDENT-CENTERED POLICIES FOCUSING ON STANDARDS AND ACCOUNTABILITY, PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE, RESOURCE EQUITY, TEACHER PREPARATION, AND HIGHER EDUCATION ACCESS AND PERSISTENCE. TO FACILITATE CHANGE IN K-12 AND HIGHER EDUCATION ERN EMPOWERS AND CONNECTS A NETWORK OF DIVERSE "ON THE GROUND" LEADERS AT THE NATIONAL AND STATE LEVELS TO DRIVE CHANGE, LEVERAGE ALLIANCES, AND TO MULTIPLY IMPACT. ERN USES MAJOR MEDIA AND DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS TO ACTIVATE AUDIENCES AND ELEVATE ALIGNED VOICES. ADDITIONALLY, THROUGH DIVERSE COALITIONS ERN SEEKS TO INFORM AND MOBILIZE VOTERS TO INCREASE CIVIC PARTICIPATION AROUND THE ISSUE OF EDUCATION REFORM.

    Expenses $10,236,313 · Grants $8,077,458

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.

  • Javaid Siddiqi

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Emily Kim

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Sabat

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Petry

    CO-PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Sabat

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Boykin Curry

    CO-PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Whitney Tilson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jim Anderson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andrew Bluhm

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Meghan MacKay

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jorge Elorza

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $336,311
    From this org
    $306,294
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,017
    Hours/week
    28

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $306,294
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,017
    Filer's total
    $336,311

  • Thaddecia Smith

    CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER & GENERAL COUNSEL

    Total calculated
    $93,320
    From this org
    $82,378
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,942
    Hours/week
    12

  • Patrick Van Keerbergen

    CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $203,530
    From this org
    $176,174
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,356
    Hours/week
    30

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $161,424
    Bonus
    $14,750
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $1,875
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,481
    Filer's total
    $203,530

  • Harrison Farnsworth

    VICE PRESIDENT, CAMPAIGNS

    Total calculated
    $129,739
    From this org
    $121,698
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,041
    Hours/week
    24

  • Tykia Warden

    VICE PRESIDENT, DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $181,434
    From this org
    $179,434
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,000
    Hours/week
    32

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $179,434
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $2,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $181,434

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
    $5,733,247
    Expenses
    $13,628,995
    Contributions
    $5,317,728
    Grants paid
    $8,077,458
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $10,485,630
    Expenses
    $12,935,563
    Contributions
    $10,047,281
    Grants paid
    $7,580,191
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $19,999,751
    Expenses
    $11,860,284
    Contributions
    $19,908,915
    Grants paid
    $6,753,720

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
    $9,742,321
    Expenses
    $8,168,050
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,856,272

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,769,665
    Expenses
    $7,216,324
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,381,688

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,557,585
    Expenses
    $8,086,242
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,981,072

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,705,104
    Expenses
    $8,135,499
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,565,818

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,308,568
    Expenses
    $8,741,246
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,336,765

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,379,392
    Expenses
    $8,220,503
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,926,753

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,916,305
    Expenses
    $9,422,605
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,068,246

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,931,232
    Expenses
    $9,895,571
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,166,965

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,463,664
    Expenses
    $6,578,665
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,183,295

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $5,521,663
    Assets (EOY)
    $859,250

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

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 11 November 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 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.