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ARENA SUMMIT

EIN 81-5171259 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$712,926
Expenses 2024
$1,785,335

Program services were 70.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
R99
Classification
3000
Street
611 PENNSYLVANIA AVE SE 143

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

9 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

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

WE CONVENE, TRAIN, AND SUPPORT THE NEXT GENERATION OF CIVIC LEADERS.

  • SINCE 2016, ARENA SUMMIT HAS HELD SEVEN SUMMITS REACHING OVER 3,300 ATTENDEES IN ATLANTA, AUSTIN, NASHVILLE, RALEIGH, DETROIT, PHOENIX, AND PHILADELPHIA. THESE EVENTS BRING TOGETHER ACTIVISTS, CIVIC ENTREPRENEURS, AND COMMUNITY LEADERS TO LEARN, MAKE CONNECTIONS, AND FORGE NEW PARTNERSHIPS. THE COMMUNITY EMERGING FROM THESE SUMMITS HAS GONE ON TO LAUNCH DOZENS OF NEW ORGANIZATIONS AND LEAD CIVIC ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS AROUND THE COUNTRY.

    Expenses $1,256,925

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Swati Mylavarapu

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related
  • Ravi Gupta

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related
  • Liz Simon

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related
  • Kate Catherall

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related
  • Meera Marti

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related
  • Huntington Williams

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related
  • Amira Valliani

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related
  • Londyn Marshall

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related
  • Esosa Osa

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related
  • Lauren Baer

    MANAGING PARTNER

    Total calculated
    $249,792
    From this org
    $232,700
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,092
    Hours/week
    31 + 9 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $195,581
    Bonus
    $37,119
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,633
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,459
    Filer's total
    $249,792
  • Debra Cohen

    PARTNER

    Total calculated
    $164,550
    From this org
    $149,688
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,862
    Hours/week
    31 + 9 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $149,688
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,766
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,096
    Filer's total
    $164,550
  • Santiago Martinez

    PARTNER

    Total calculated
    $166,356
    From this org
    $159,593
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,763
    Hours/week
    31 + 9 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $159,593
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,835
    Nontaxable benefits
    $928
    Filer's total
    $166,356
  • Sydney Levin-Epstein

    DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $118,444
    From this org
    $107,970
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,474
    Hours/week
    31 + 9 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $712,926
    Expenses
    $1,785,335
    Contributions
    $703,628
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,067,421
    Expenses
    $1,366,222
    Contributions
    $1,067,421
    Grants paid
    $1,193
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,480,803
    Expenses
    $1,258,919
    Contributions
    $1,480,782
    Grants paid
    $360

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
    $1,463,206
    Expenses
    $524,180
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,255,918
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $737,102
    Expenses
    $899,823
    Assets (EOY)
    $305,749
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $818,174
    Expenses
    $627,593
    Assets (EOY)
    $470,636
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $776,846
    Expenses
    $562,769
    Assets (EOY)
    $214,077

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

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 2024 return

  • THE ARENA 527

    527 · POLITICAL ORGANIZATION · DC · controlled entity

  • THE ARENA PAC

    527 · POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE · DC · controlled entity

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