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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS SOCIETY

EIN 81-3308969 ARLINGTON, VA

Revenue 2024
$1,169,161
Expenses 2024
$891,114

Program services were 92.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
1200
Street
4201 WILSON BLVD SUITE 0800

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

This address is a suite or unit (SUITE 0800). 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.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE JOHN QUINCY ADAMS SOCIETY IS COMMITTED TO IDENTIFYING, EDUCATING, AND EQUIPPING THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCHOLARS AND POLICY LEADERS TO ENCOURAGE A NEW ERA OF REALISM AND RESTRAINT IN AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY.

  • WE CONDUCT EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES TO PREPARE PROFESSIONALS AND STUDENTS FOR WORK IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY. THESE ACTIVITIES INCLUDE A FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR MIDCAREER PROFESSIONALS INVOLVING SALONS WITH EXPERTS, A CRISIS SIMULATION, AND AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY TRIP. ANOTHER FELLOWSHIP PREPARES EARLY-CAREER PROFESSIONALS, JOBSEEKERS, AND STUDENTS WITH HANDS-ON LEARNING TO PRODUCE A THINK-TANK-QUALITY POLICY PAPER AND SUPPORTING MATERIALS. WE CONDUCT REGULAR READING GROUPS IN PERSON AND ONLINE. WE SUPPORT CHAPTERS ON CAMPUSES BY HELPING THEM HOST SPEAKERS AND CONDUCT OTHER EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES. WE CONDUCT A SUMMER CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. WE PRODUCE A PODCAST WITH FOREIGN POLICY EXPERTS. WE DISTRIBUTED A WEEKLY NEWSLETTER WITH A ROUNDUP OF NEWS, INTERNSHIPS, AND JOBS RELEVANT TO ASPIRING FOREIGN-POLICY PROFESSIONALS. WE PROVIDE CAREER ADVICE TO EARLY CAREER PROFESSIONALS AND STUDENTS.

    Expenses $823,104 · Grants $100,000

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.

  • Edward King

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Desch

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Reid Smith

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • William Ruger

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Henrich Heuer

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John Gay

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $145,711
    From this org
    $115,720
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,991
    Hours/week
    40

  • Weston Edwards

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $1,169,161
    Expenses
    $891,114
    Contributions
    $1,169,143
    Grants paid
    $100,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $317,514
    Expenses
    $976,234
    Contributions
    $317,490
    Grants paid
    $120,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,166,377
    Expenses
    $745,295
    Contributions
    $1,165,970
    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-EZ

    Revenue
    $44,916
    Expenses
    $374,230
    Assets (EOY)
    $453,246

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $544,056
    Expenses
    $305,773
    Assets (EOY)
    $774,246

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $500,418
    Expenses
    $304,811
    Assets (EOY)
    $520,228

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 2017

Tax period
1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017
Principal officer
William Ruger
Mailing address
1320 North Courthouse Rd Suite 500Arlington VA 22201
Website
jqas.org

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

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