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AMPLIFIER FOUNDATION

EIN 47-1612420 LOS ANGELES, CA

Revenue 2024
$1,201,303
Expenses 2024
$1,109,627

Program services were 65.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A23
Classification
1000
Street
1340 E 6TH ST STE 411

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

Amplifier Foundation is a non-profit organization whose mission is to amplify the most important movements of our time. Amplifier's goal is to flip artists into activists and observers into participants.

  • Other Program: Our nonprofit media campaigns reach over 20 million viewers per campaign, amplifying movements focused on equality, dignity, diversity, truth, and beauty. Through art and media, we address issues like environmental accountability, mental health, reproductive justice, civic engagement, immigration, and equity in sports. We are committed to fostering compassionate, inclusive, and just communities.

    Expenses $317,115 · Revenue $70,938

  • Fellowship: Amplifier launched a fellowship and grant program for photographers and photo-based artists ahead of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election. The program addresses threats to democracy, including voter disenfranchisement, intimidation, manipulation, misinformation, and disinformation campaigns, while highlighting systemic racism and inequity. Through their projects, our fellows and grantees raise awareness of these challenges, encouraging civic engagement and social change.

    Expenses $230,163 · Revenue $26,137

  • Revolutionary Love: Amplifier partnered with author and activist Valarie Kaur and the Revolutionary Love Project to bring the 2024 Revolutionary Love Tour to life, a national cultural initiative encouraging compassion, courage, and collective healing. Through original artwork, storytelling tools, and public art installations, we helped communities practice ?revolutionary love? as a force for social change. The tour reached millions across the United States, offering immersive experiences that fostered connection across lines of difference.

    Expenses $115,010

  • Native Vote: In partnership with IllumiNative and Natives Vote, Amplifier created a nationwide public art and storytelling campaign to support Indigenous voter engagement during the 2024 election season. We commissioned Indigenous artists, produced culturally responsive educational tools, and provided communications support to grassroots organizations working in key states where Native communities face structural barriers to voting. The campaign distributed over 10,000 physical artworks, supported more than 25 community events, and reached millions through digital and public installations to elevate Native voices and protect voting rights.

    Expenses $58,907

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.

  • Cleo Barnett

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $123,650
    From this org
    $123,650
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Aaron Huey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $113,900
    From this org
    $113,900
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Isabella A Sisneros

    COO

    Total calculated
    $89,634
    From this org
    $89,634
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • McKenzie Funk

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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
    $1,201,303
    Expenses
    $1,109,627
    Contributions
    $1,099,886
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,007,874
    Expenses
    $1,122,786
    Contributions
    $683,577
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,189,782
    Expenses
    $1,295,736
    Contributions
    $1,063,809
    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
    $1,951,906
    Expenses
    $2,058,760
    Assets (EOY)
    $511,183

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,390,459
    Expenses
    $1,242,094
    Assets (EOY)
    $553,527

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,413,907
    Expenses
    $1,242,094
    Assets (EOY)
    $576,975

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $839,817
    Expenses
    $1,043,856
    Assets (EOY)
    $341,674

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $820,211
    Expenses
    $935,792
    Assets (EOY)
    $542,444

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,300,661
    Expenses
    $1,933,058
    Assets (EOY)
    $657,500

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $375,163
    Expenses
    $147,372
    Assets (EOY)
    $284,787

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2015

Tax period
1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015
Principal officer
Aaron Huey
Mailing address
1546 NE 94TH STREETSEATTLE WA 981153148

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

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

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.