FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

W20C

Classification

1000

Street

1401 K ST NW STE 901

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

• THE ORGANIZATION CONDUCTED STUDY GROUPS WITH GERMANY, JAPAN, EUROPE AND KOREA TO PROVIDE THE MEMBERS OF PARLIMENT IN THESE COUNTRIES WITH OPPORTUNITIES FOR FRANK DISCUSSIONS WITH CURRENT AND FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES ON KEY ISSUES AFFECTING THEM THROUGH ONGOING, UNOFFICIAL AND INFORMAL FORA. THESE STUDY GROUPS WERE MAINLY SUPPORTED BY CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATES, ATLANTIK BRUECKE, THE SASAKAWA PEACE FOUNDATION, AND PRIVATE CORPORATIONS.

  Expenses $1,026,280

• THE GOAL OF THE ORGANIZATION IS TO PROMOTE PUBLIC SERVICE, TEACH ABOUT CONGRESS AND STRENGTHEN REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, WHILE KEEPING ITS UNIQUE MEMBERSHIP CONNECTED AFTER LEAVING CAPITOL HILL. TO ACHIEVE THIS GOAL, THE ORGANIZATION CONDUCTS DOMESTIC PROGRAMS, MOST NOTABLY THE CONGRESS TO CAMPUS PROGRAM, WHICH SENT BIPARTIAN TEAMS OF FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO ALMOST 30 COLLEGE CAMPUSES. THIS PROGRAM ALSO INCORPORATED A WEBCAST SERIES (THE CIVICS CONNECTION), AS WELL AS A COMMUNITY OUTREACH TO INCLUDE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND OTHER INTERESTED CITIZENS. IN ADDITION TO A SMALL ADMISTRATIVE FEE CHARGED TO THE UNIVERSITIES VISITED, THE CONGRESS TO CAMPUS PROGRAM WAS SUPPORTED, BY THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE AMBASSADOR PROGRAM, AND THE STENNIS CENTER FOR PUBLIC SERVICES. IN ADDITION, VIA FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM LEGACY INTERNATIONAL, THE ORGANIZATION HOSTS VISITING DELEGATIONS FROM EMERGING DEMOCRACIES IN THE UNITED STATES FOR TRAINING AND EDUCATION IN THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS. THE ORGANIZATION'S MAIN DOMESTIC FOCUS FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS HAS BEEN A NATIONWIDE EFFORT TO RESTORE CIVIC EDUCATION IN PUBLIC CLASSROOMS. BIPARTIAN TEAMS OF FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WORK WITH LOCAL ENTITIES AND NON PROFITS TO REACH MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, AS WELL AS EDUCATORS, IN AN EFFORT TO EDUCATE ABOUT THE RESPONSIBILTY THAT COMES WITH CITIZENSHIP, ABOUT THE ROLE OF OUR THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT, AND ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS.

  Expenses $59,871

• THE ORGANIZATION EMPHASIZES ITS INTERNATIONAL ENDEAVORS. PROGRAMS SUCH AS THE GLOBAL DEMOCRACY INITIATIVE CAPITALIZE ON THE UNIQUE EXPERIENCE AND SKILL SET OF FOMER LEGISLATORS IN DEMOCRACY-BUILDING AND PARLIAMENTARY STRENGTHENING MISSIONS. OTHER PROJECTS, FOR EXAMPLE, THE CONGRESSIONAL STUDY GROUPS, AIM TO CREATE PEER-TO-PEER DIALOGUE INVOLVING CURRENT MEMBERERS OF CONGRESS AND THEIR COLLEGUES IN OTHER LEGISLATURES. IN ADDITION, AN INTERNATIONAL EXTENSION OF THE CONGRESS TO CAMPUS PROGRAM (MOST NOTABLY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM,TURKEY, CHINA, AND CANADA), THE ORGANIZATION AIMS TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY ABROAD VIA PROJECTS SUCH AS THE GLOBAL DEMOCRACY INITIATIVE (GDI). GDI IS A JOINT PROJECT CONDUCTED WITH THE FORMER LEGISLATORS' ASSOCIATIONS OF CANADA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION (THE ASSOCIATION). PROGRAM ACTIVITIES INCLUDED SEVERAL TRAINING COURSES CONDUCTED IN OTTAWA TO PREPARE FORMER LEGISLATORS FOR ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSIONS. GDI ALSO INCLUDES THEM U.S. LEGISLATORS AGAINST CORRUPTION PROJECT, WHICH SEEKS TO STRENGTHEN ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS IN EMERGING DEMOCRACIES. VIA THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ASSOCIATION, FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS CONDUCT DEMOCRACY BUILDING MISSIONS SUCH AS LEGISLATIVE STENGTHENING WORKSHOPS OR SERVING AS ELECTION OBSERVERS.

  Expenses $1,163,239

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.

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, 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

  $3,959,885

  Expenses

  $3,354,726

  Contributions

  $3,522,108

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,662,026

  Expenses

  $2,901,947

  Contributions

  $2,484,617

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $3,123,082

  Expenses

  $3,001,089

  Contributions

  $3,049,964

  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

  $2,363,837

  Expenses

  $2,335,261

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,838,791

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,073,894

  Expenses

  $2,341,060

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,504,490

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,220,069

  Expenses

  $2,929,555

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,794,409

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,298,202

  Expenses

  $2,459,231

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,159,344

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,087,360

  Expenses

  $1,968,408

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,526,196

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,001,815

  Expenses

  $1,715,541

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,360,263

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,648,251

  Expenses

  $1,671,671

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,138,115

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,585,822

  Expenses

  $1,447,037

  Assets (EOY)

  $861,933

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,039,254

  Expenses

  $1,080,708

  Assets (EOY)

  $690,710

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $1,016,986

  Assets (EOY)

  $683,424

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

• KOREA SOCIETY

  $250,000

  2025 · TO SUPPORT THE CONGRESSIONAL STUDY GROUP ON KOREA

• KOREA SOCIETY

  $234,086

  2023 · TO SUPPORT THE CONGRESSIONAL STUDY GROUP ON KOREA

• KOREA SOCIETY

  $120,781

  2022 · TO SUPPORT THE CONGRESSIONAL STUDY GROUP ON KOREA

• GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE US

  $87,500

  2024 · TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE

• AARP

  $75,000

  2023 · Sponsorship of the Congress to Campus HBCU's Program, Statesmanship Awards and Civic Education Program

• AARP

  $75,000

  2022 · Sponsorship of the Congress to Campus HBCU's Program and Statesmanship Awards

• UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC

  $75,000

  2024 · TO SUPPORT INTERVIEWS AND ANALYSIS; REPORTING; EVENTS; COMMUNICATIONS AND ENGAGEMENT; AND ONGOING ANALYSIS

• AARP

  $75,000

  2024 · Sponsorship of annual gala

• GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE US

  $52,083

  2023 · TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE

• GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE US

  $39,423

  2022 · TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE

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

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