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TESSERACT

EIN 80-0378174 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2025
$1,455,119
Expenses 2025
$1,034,464

Program services were 70.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
R99
Classification
1000
Street
1629 K ST NW STE 300

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 · 2025

Mission

TESSERACT, INC. IS A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION DEDICATED TO PRESERVING AND PERFECTING DEMOCRATIC CAPITALISM BY REFORMING THE TAX SYSTEM, LABOR POLICIES AND DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES.

  • PATRIOTIC MILLIONAIRES - FOCUSES ON ORGANIZING POLITICALLY AND LOBBYING CONGRESS TO HELP ENACT REFORMS THAT WILL BUILD A MORE STABLE, PROSPEROUS AND INCLUSIVE NATION.

    Expenses $694,138

  • AMERICAN DECIDERS IS A BIPARTISAN COLLECTIVE FOCUSED ON ECONOMIC ISSUES. WE PROVIDE CLEAR INFORMATION ON POLICIES AND CANDIDATES, RALLYING COMMUNITIES TO ADVOCATE FOR ECONOMIC EQUALITY, TRANSPARENCY, AND FAIRNESS. OUR CORE TENETS ARE TAX THE RICH, PAY THE PEOPLE, AND SPREAD THE POWER.

    Expenses $25,208

  • THE GREAT ECONOMY PROJECT IS A NON-PARTISAN EFFORT TO ORGANIZE GROUPS OF PEOPLE IN RURAL PARTS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND WISCONSIN TO LEARN ABOUT THE POLICIES THAT THE CENTER IS WORKING ON.

    Expenses $12,483

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Erica Payne

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $333,805
    From this org
    $65,273
    From related orgs
    $234,727
    Other
    $33,805
    Hours/week
    9 + 31 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $65,273 + $234,727 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $1,657 + $5,958 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,698 + $20,491 related
    Filer's total
    $72,628 + $261,176 related
  • Jodie Rubenstein

    TREASURER/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $221,715
    From this org
    $80,193
    From related orgs
    $104,868
    Other
    $36,654
    Hours/week
    17 + 23 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $80,193 + $104,868 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,183 + $5,471 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,700 + $15,300 related
    Filer's total
    $96,076 + $125,639 related
  • Holli Woodings

    VP GOV'T AFFAIRS

    Total calculated
    $202,945
    From this org
    $66,963
    From related orgs
    $86,850
    Other
    $49,132
    Hours/week
    17 + 23 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $66,963 + $86,850 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,567 + $4,626 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,823 + $23,116 related
    Filer's total
    $88,353 + $114,592 related
  • Rene Felt

    ART DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $183,524
    From this org
    $4,142
    From related orgs
    $144,396
    Other
    $34,986
    Hours/week
    1 + 39 related
  • Gene Haigh

    SENIOR ADVISOR

    Total calculated
    $145,358
    From this org
    $18,874
    From related orgs
    $101,126
    Other
    $25,358
    Hours/week
    6 + 34 related
  • Adam Shubert

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $144,818
    From this org
    $8,251
    From related orgs
    $128,485
    Other
    $8,082
    Hours/week
    2 + 38 related
  • Robert Lord

    SENIOR ADVISOR

    Total calculated
    $118,587
    From this org
    $34,669
    From related orgs
    $76,789
    Other
    $7,129
    Hours/week
    12 + 28 related
  • Morris Pearl

    CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related
  • Chuck Collins

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related
  • Anna Maria Archila

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related
  • Stephen Prince

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related
  • Drew Pomerance

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,455,119
    Expenses
    $1,034,464
    Contributions
    $1,455,119
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,100,043
    Expenses
    $827,271
    Contributions
    $1,100,043
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $890,195
    Expenses
    $700,880
    Contributions
    $890,195
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,106,509
    Expenses
    $1,322,728
    Contributions
    $1,106,509
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,106,509
    Expenses
    $1,322,728
    Contributions
    $1,106,509
    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
    $1,264,966
    Expenses
    $1,135,051
    Assets (EOY)
    $304,697
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $753,138
    Expenses
    $996,689
    Assets (EOY)
    $105,767
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,347,354
    Expenses
    $998,521
    Assets (EOY)
    $433,508
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $805,469
    Expenses
    $1,091,381
    Assets (EOY)
    $222,179
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $888,193
    Expenses
    $791,202
    Assets (EOY)
    $339,622
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $304,925
    Expenses
    $266,079
    Assets (EOY)
    $68,201
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $161,782
    Expenses
    $138,865
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,651
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $83,700
    Expenses
    $80,577
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,100
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $48,733
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,095
  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $616,417
    Assets (EOY)
    $65,046

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

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 2025 return

  • TESSERACT RESEARCH CENTER INC

    DC

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.

Disregarded entities on its 2025 return

  • THE PATRIOTIC MILLIONAIRES LLC

    DC

  • MAYDAY AMERICA LLC

    DC

  • THE AGENDA PROJECT LLC

    DC

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.