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BASTION I INSTITUTE

EIN 88-0710858 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$962,000
Expenses 2024
$489,633

Program services were 89.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q05
Classification
1200
Street
600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE SE UNIT 15368

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

Mission

TWO OCEANS HAVE ALWAYS SEPARATED AMERICA FROM HER GREAT POWER ADVERSARIES AND VIOLENT EXTREMIST ORGANIZATIONS ALIKE, BUT IN TODAY'S INTERCONNECTED WORLD, AMERICA'S NEIGHBORHOOD HAS DRASTICALLY EXPANDED, AND THE FOREIGN POLICY DECISIONS OF OUR NATION, AND THOSE AROUND THE GLOBE, HAVE A DIRECT IMPACT ON THE DAILY LIVES OF EVERY AMERICAN.THE BASTION INSTITUTE STRIVES TO BRING TOGETHER SOME OF THE BRIGHTEST MINDS ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO DISCUSS THE PATH TOWARD STRENGTHENING AMERICA'S LEADERSHIP AND STANDING ON THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE BASTION INSTITUTE (TBI) CONDUCTED MULTIPLE PANEL DISCUSSIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY THAT FEATURED CONVERSATIONS AROUND AMERICAN STRENGTH, NATIONAL SECURITY, AND DIPLOMATIC POLICY.

  • PUBLIC EDUCATION AS IT RELATES TO AMERICAN STRENGTH AND STRONG NATIONAL SECURITY DELIVERED TO THE PUBLIC VIA PUBLIC FORUMS WITH ELECTED OFFICIALS AND THOUGHT LEADERS WITH DIGITAL CONTENT AND PRESS CONTENT AROUND AND FOLLOWING THE FORUMS.

    Expenses $437,855 · Grants $240,000

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.

  • BARRY JACKSON

    TREASURER/SECRETARY/BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KENT LUKEN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MORGAN ORTAGUS

    CHAIR/BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • COL DAVE TROTTER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL ALLEN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RICHARD GOLDBERG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RACHEL PEARSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PETER ROUGH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROGER ZAKHEIM

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRYAN KRABER

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • LES WILLIAMSON

    ASSISTANT TREASURER

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $962,000
    Expenses
    $489,633
    Contributions
    $962,000
    Grants paid
    $240,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $669,000
    Expenses
    $559,487
    Contributions
    $669,000
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $536,000
    Expenses
    $330,513
    Contributions
    $536,000
    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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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