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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

EIN 53-0193519 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2025
$340,516,012
Expenses 2025
$222,560,462

Program services were 82.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B030
Classification
2800
Street
1145 17TH ST NW

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 · 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.

  • JILL TIEFENTHALER

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $1,571,576
    From this org
    $1,531,988
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $39,588
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $1,147,701
    Bonus
    $372,803
    Other
    $11,484
    Deferred
    $11,750
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,838
    Filer's total
    $1,571,576

  • AFSANEH BESCHLOSS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • ANGEL CABRERA

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • ANTHONY A WILLIAMS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • BRENDAN P BECHTEL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • CLAUDIA MADRAZO

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • DAMBISA MOYO

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • DAVID MARRIOTT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • DEBORAH LEHR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • DINA POWELL MCCORMICK

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • ELLEN R STOFAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • EVAN G GREENBERG

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • FREDERICK J RYAN JR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • HENRY ELLENBOGEN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • JEAN CASE

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • JOHN K DELANEY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • JOSEPH M DESIMONE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • KATE BRANDT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • KATHERINE BRADLEY

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • KEVIN J MARONI

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • MARK MOORE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • NANCY PFUND

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • RAJIV SHAH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • SANDESH KADUR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $48,500
    From this org
    $48,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • STRIVE MASIYIWA

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

The first 25 listed. 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 — 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
    $340,516,012
    Expenses
    $222,560,462
    Contributions
    $189,719,280
    Grants paid
    $29,945,699
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $231,981,168
    Expenses
    $212,737,237
    Contributions
    $91,204,096
    Grants paid
    $34,870,546
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $157,560,446
    Expenses
    $188,921,145
    Contributions
    $74,952,274
    Grants paid
    $29,687,875

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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

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.

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

  • NG FOUNDATION FOR SCI EX (ASIA)

    501(c)(3) · GRANT MAKING · controlled entity

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

    $8,028 raised

    2024 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$22,722 to charity

  • SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

    $13,177 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$11,074 to charity

  • SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

    $0 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    $0 to charity

  • SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

    $37,416 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$50,078 to charity

  • SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

    $18,896 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$16,284 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 10 September 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.