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COMPACT INSTITUTE OF IDEAS INC

EIN 93-3136676 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2024
$376,215
Expenses 2024
$300,573

Program services were 90.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A30
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 4668

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

5 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

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Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The purpose of The Compact Institute of Ideas is to support exceptional journalism, as exemplified by COMPACT, and to conduct related public educational programs, such as training, mentorship, and sponsoring of journalists and public intellectuals, the production of rigorous, public-minded investigative reporting, the organization of annual or other periodic educational and enrichment programs, conferences and colloquia and the promotion of scholarship regarding the same.

  • Global Project: We have published reporting and analysis from countries often overlooked by the Western press.

    Expenses $74,187 · Grants $74,187

  • Critical Dialogue: Critical Dialogues: We have published a series of reviews and essay exploring new cultural trends.

    Expenses $72,208 · Grants $72,208

  • Compact Podcast: We host Compact Conversations, a podcast taking an in-depth look at the ideas shaping the contemporary world.

    Expenses $64,102 · Grants $64,102

  • Project for a New Social-Democratic Consensus: We have hosted important discussions of trade, industrial policy, and labor relations.

    Expenses $62,449 · Grants $62,449

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.

  • Wilken Yu

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $5,000
    From this org
    $5,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sohrab Ahmari

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matthew Schmitz

    President

    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
    $376,215
    Expenses
    $300,573
    Contributions
    $376,215
    Grants paid
    $272,946
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $200,000
    Expenses
    $0
    Contributions
    $200,000
    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

  • Compact Magazine Inc

    $272,946

    2024

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • Compact Magazine Inc

    C Corp · Magazine Publisher · NY

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.