- Revenue 2024
- $11,600,000
- Expenses 2024
- $1,017,998
Program services were 89.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- T30
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 601 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW S BLDG 90
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
7 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.
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C & B GROUP
EIN 83-3837181
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DEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE
EIN 83-1567380
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PRINCIPLES FIRST FOR AMERICA FOUNDATION
EIN 93-3743272
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PRINCIPLES FIRST FOR AMERICA LTD
EIN 84-3733436
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UNITE AND RENEW EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
EIN 87-1417978
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UNITE AND RENEW FUND INC
EIN 85-2966214
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VOTERS FOR THE AMERICAN CENTER INC
EIN 99-3929463
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE IS DEDICATED TO ADVANCING FOUNDATIONAL AMERICAN IDEALS SUCH AS DEMOCRACY, INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, AND EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW, AND STRIVES TO EMPOWER INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS WITH INNOVATIVE IDEAS AND FACILITATE THE FLOW OF PHILANTHROPIC CAPITAL TO ALLOW NONPROFITS TO CARRY OUT THEIR MISSIONS.
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THE ORGANIZATION SUPPORTS A BROAD SPECTRUM OF INITIATIVES THAT PROMOTE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, PROTECT CIVIL LIBERTIES, STRENGTHEN DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS, AND EXPAND EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW. THESE INITIATIVES INCLUDE EFFORTS TO INCREASE VOTER PARTICIPATION AND ACCESS TO THE BALLOT, STRENGTHEN CIVIC EDUCATION, AND ENCOURAGE MEANINGFUL PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS.
Expenses $913,490
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.
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Brina MilikowskyBRINA MILIKOWSKY
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Heather RenwickHEATHER RENWICK
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Layla ZaidaneLAYLA ZAIDANE
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $11,600,000
- Expenses
- $1,017,998
- Contributions
- $11,600,000
- 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.
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
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DEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE
$12,150,000
2024 TO SUPPORT SPECIFIC PROGRAMS.
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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 13 October 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 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.