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CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES INC

EIN 52-1449368 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2024
$2,939,989
Expenses 2024
$3,255,645

Program services were 77.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R21M
Classification
2000
Street
1629 K ST NW STE 600

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 600). 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

Research and publication of immigration issues.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES IS AN INDEPENDENT, NON-PARTISAN, NON-PROFIT, RESEARCH ORGANIZATION. SINCE OUR FUNDING IN 1985, WE HAVE PURSUED A SINGLE MISSION - PROVIDING IMMIGRATION POLICYMAKERS, THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY, NEWS MEDIA, AND CONCERNED CITIZENS WITH RELIABLE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL, SECURITY, AND FISCAL CONSEQUENCES OF LEGAL AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION INTO THE UNITED STATES.

  • PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH - THE RESEARCH, WRITING, AND DISSEMINATION OF ARTICLES, BOOKS, MONOGRAPHS, AND BROCHURES DEALING WITH IMMIGRATION ISSUES FROM A SCHOLARLY OR EXPERT PERSPECTIVE.

    Expenses $2,527,838

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.

  • Peter Nunez

    Chair & President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • William W Chip

    Secretary & Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Dan Vara

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Don Barnett

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dr Frank Morris Sr

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jan Ting

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kent E Lundgren

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lt Gen Harry E Soyster

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Phillip Linderman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Roy Porter

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Susan Esterhay

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • T Willard Fair

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mark Krikorian

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $281,958
    From this org
    $225,207
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $56,751
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $225,207
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $17,115
    Nontaxable benefits
    $39,636
    Filer's total
    $281,958
  • Andrew Arthur

    Resident Fellow Law & Policy

    Total calculated
    $262,945
    From this org
    $230,687
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32,258
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $226,087
    Bonus
    $4,600
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $17,314
    Nontaxable benefits
    $14,944
    Filer's total
    $262,945
  • Jon Feere

    Director of Investigations

    Total calculated
    $210,450
    From this org
    $187,870
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,580
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $184,070
    Bonus
    $3,800
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $13,809
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,771
    Filer's total
    $210,450
  • Julie Axelrod

    Director Of Litigation

    Total calculated
    $213,773
    From this org
    $199,304
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,469
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $195,304
    Bonus
    $4,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,935
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,534
    Filer's total
    $213,773
  • Marguerite Telford

    Director of Communications

    Total calculated
    $208,573
    From this org
    $165,915
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,658
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $162,515
    Bonus
    $3,400
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $12,409
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,249
    Filer's total
    $208,573
  • Steven Camarota

    Director Of Research

    Total calculated
    $306,533
    From this org
    $246,066
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $60,467
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $241,066
    Bonus
    $5,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $18,063
    Nontaxable benefits
    $42,404
    Filer's total
    $306,533

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
    $2,939,989
    Expenses
    $3,255,645
    Contributions
    $2,553,992
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,019,038
    Expenses
    $3,315,911
    Contributions
    $2,872,953
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,821,542
    Expenses
    $3,742,872
    Contributions
    $2,966,015
    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
    $3,673,038
    Expenses
    $3,249,953
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,170,190
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,549,449
    Expenses
    $2,715,656
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,276,384
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,244,681
    Expenses
    $3,505,052
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,817,718
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,437,004
    Expenses
    $3,416,896
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,809,572
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,993,617
    Expenses
    $3,020,942
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,860,628
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,902,940
    Expenses
    $2,816,435
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,688,831
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,907,224
    Expenses
    $2,670,635
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,486,275
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,772,885
    Expenses
    $2,361,993
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,182,063
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,441,897
    Expenses
    $2,486,183
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,707,614
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,308,274
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,649,757

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

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.

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.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 11 November 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.