ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION

As filed

Subsection

06

Classification

2000

Street

601 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW STE 300W

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

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 300W). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

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.

• ESAS FOUNDATION

  EIN 06-1582325

Mission and programs · 2024

• LEGAL, LEGISLATIVE, AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS - ADVOCATES FOR THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND COMMERCIAL INTERESTS OF THE VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY BEFORE STATE AND FEDERAL POLICYMAKERS AND THE COURTS. SERVES AS THE SOLE PUBLIC RELATIONS INTERFACE BETWEEN THE VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY AND THE MEDIA TO INFORM THE PUBLIC OF THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC, TECHNICAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND ENTERTAINMENT VALUE OF THE VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY.

• RATINGS AND CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS (ESRB & IARC) - ADMINISTERS AN INTERNATIONAL AGE AND CONTENT RATING SYSTEM THAT APPLIES TO INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ACROSS A VARIETY OF PLATFORMS AND DEVICES, PROVIDING RELIABLE GUIDANCE TO PARENTS AND CONSUMERS. ADMINISTERS A PRIVACY SEAL CERTIFICATION PROGRAM DESIGNED TO PROTECT CHILDREN'S ONLINE PRIVACY ON VIDEO GAME COMPANY WEBSITES.

• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION AND SECURITY - PROTECTS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF MEMBER COMPANIES BY ESTABLISHING A NUMBER OF ENFORCEMENT PROGRAMS AIMED AT COMBATING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENTS.

• ADVERTISING REVIEW COUNCIL - ENSURES THAT ADVERTISING FOR INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE IS APPROPRIATE, RESPONSIBLE, TRUTHFUL, AND ACCURATE, PARTICULARLY WITH RESPECT TO CONTENT RATINGS.

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.

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

  $40,733,857

  Expenses

  $35,510,258

  Contributions

  $0

  Grants paid

  $745,661

• 2023

  Revenue

  $36,153,336

  Expenses

  $34,902,280

  Contributions

  $0

  Grants paid

  $670,060

• 2022

  Revenue

  $38,588,407

  Expenses

  $33,358,333

  Contributions

  $1,480,489

  Grants paid

  $659,016

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

  $39,894,859

  Expenses

  $37,797,969

  Assets (EOY)

  $37,670,266

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $30,106,457

  Expenses

  $30,380,876

  Assets (EOY)

  $40,507,353

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $40,483,926

  Expenses

  $42,652,672

  Assets (EOY)

  $37,679,023

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $40,486,304

  Expenses

  $40,343,854

  Assets (EOY)

  $46,075,214

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $36,683,350

  Expenses

  $36,282,912

  Assets (EOY)

  $47,699,151

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $35,805,020

  Expenses

  $35,067,474

  Assets (EOY)

  $44,499,576

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $37,108,234

  Expenses

  $33,633,200

  Assets (EOY)

  $41,135,182

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $32,370,376

  Expenses

  $31,584,638

  Assets (EOY)

  $42,643,699

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $33,739,244

  Expenses

  $31,572,027

  Assets (EOY)

  $38,627,098

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $32,292,365

  Assets (EOY)

  $37,967,172

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

• CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION

  $150,000

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• AG ALLIANCE

  $75,000

  2023 · SPONSORSHIP

• CONFERENCE OF WESTERN ATTORNYS GENERAL

  $75,000

  2024 · ATTORNEY GENERAL ALLIANCE YEARLY DUES

• GAMES FOR CHANGE

  $65,000

  2022 · SPONSOR GAMES FOR CHANGE FESTIVAL

• STATE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS FOUNDATION

  $60,200

  2024 · ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP AND EVENT SUPPORT

• CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE

  $40,000

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• SENATE PRESIDENTS' FORUM

  $40,000

  2024 · 2025 SENATE PRESIDENTS FORUM EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING

• NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES

  $30,000

  2023 · 2024 PLATINUM SPONSOR

• NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES

  $30,000

  2024 · PLATINUM SPONSORSHIP

• AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM

  $25,000

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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.

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