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AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY GERMAN STUDIES JOHN HOPKINS UNIV

EIN 52-1309525 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$1,246,311
Expenses 2024
$2,118,136

Program services were 70.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
V35Z
Classification
1200
Street
1776 MASSACHUSETTS AVE 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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The American-German Institute is a center for policy research and scholarship dedicated to the most important political, economic, and security issues confronting Germany and the United States in the global arena. AGI anticipates challenges, proposes solutions, and bolsters the German-American partnership.

  • OTHER PROGRAMS In FY25, AGI continued hosting researchers and scholars with the DAAD/AGI Research Fellowship Program. We also continued our partnership with the NRW School of Governance at the University Duisburg/Essen by hosting two fellows in FY25. The second year of the exchange program, Building LGBTQ+ Communities in Germany and the United States, included study tours to New York City in September and Munich in March. The participants published articles and podcasts, and the output corresponded with World Pride in Washington. The Halle Foundation enabled AGI to host paid internships throughout the year. AGI experts continue to engage on The Zeitgeist podcast, in articles, and with the media in the U.S. and Germany.

    Expenses $630,832

  • GEOECONOMICS PROGRAM In FY25, the Geoeconomics Program focused on economic security, the Draghi report, and the ways the German economic model is changing and how that will interact with the economic policies of the Trump administration and the transatlantic relationship. With the German Marshall Fund of the United States, we held an event on redefining economic security (which took place the day following President Trump s tariff announcement). We continued our cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation with the fifth annual Transatlantic Trade Week on the topic of economic security. The Geoconomics Program held a February symposium in Frankfurt, which featured two panels on the foreign policy and economic impact of the second Trump administration on transatlantic relations, along with the key international issues at stake in the German election. It also engaged stakeholders in Munich with an event in cooperation with Amerikahaus and the Technical University-Munich, focused on the economic relationship between the U.S. and Europe, particularly economic security and technology issues in the transatlantic relationship.

    Expenses $302,998

  • FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY PROGRAM - In FY25, the Foreign & Security Policy Program focused on German international security commitments and how it is putting its defense Zeitenwende into practice. The program published a report with the U.S. Army War College assessing the implementation of Germany s defense transformation, analyzing changes in Germany s defense strategy, military capabilities, energy transformation, and international relationships since the sea change that Chancellor Scholz announced following Russia s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The report and subsequent conference analyzed the strides Germany has made in its defense policy since the full-scale invasion as well as the gaps that the new grand coalition must address in order to ensure Germany can defend itself from twenty-first century threats. At the Munich Security Conference, AGI hosted its transatlantic breakfast with the American Council on Germany, exploring the ways in which the U.S. and Germany can seek collaboration and manage disagreements as new governments in both countries set their course for the coming years.

    Expenses $299,505

  • SOCIETY, CULTURE AND POLITICS - In FY25, the Society, Culture & Politics Program covered breaking political developments in Germany, the election, and coalition negotiations in articles, podcasts, and events, including a joint event with the Hertie School at AGI offices in Washington and webinars on the election and the new German government; it continues to monitor the new government performance, policies, and personnel. The Understanding the AfD project continues to track far-right politics in Germany, which after the AfD second-place finish has become even more important. The SCP program is also focusing on Germany s memory culture and hosted a conference on Germany s mnemonic Zeitenwende, co-funded by Georgetown University and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The conference examined how Germany?s approach to Holocaust memory has evolved as new attention is paid to the period of German colonialism. Throughout early 2025, AGI published articles and a podcast from conference participants, continuing to foster debate on Germany s memory landscape. The program continues to mark important milestones in German memory, including the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the 75th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration in 2025.

    Expenses $259,807

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.

  • Jeffrey Rathke

    President

    Total calculated
    $163,141
    From this org
    $163,141
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $163,141
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $163,141

  • Susanne Dieper

    Program Director

    Total calculated
    $129,423
    From this org
    $129,423
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Peter S Rashish

    Program Director

    Total calculated
    $118,069
    From this org
    $118,069
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • JESSICA HART

    DIR. FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $107,153
    From this org
    $107,153
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Martin H Richenhagen

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Roland Berger Vice-Chair

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Fred W Reinke Esq

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Stefan Hafke

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Prof Dr Ann-Kristin Achleitner

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amb Emily Haber

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jacques Brand

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Melinda Crane

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Wolfgang Fink

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Louis C Forster

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Holger Hofmeister

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Louis R Hughes

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Charles Varvaro

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Knower

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carlo Kolzer

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anup Kothari

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Jill E McGovern

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bernhard Meising

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Morris W Offit

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Lutz R Raettig

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Wolfgang Reitzle

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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
    $1,246,311
    Expenses
    $2,118,136
    Contributions
    $1,107,015
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,322,337
    Expenses
    $2,160,146
    Contributions
    $2,182,425
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,008,941
    Expenses
    $1,957,432
    Contributions
    $1,869,000
    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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,428,780
    Expenses
    $1,840,490
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,735,125

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,309,915
    Expenses
    $1,397,974
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,052,516

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,729,729
    Expenses
    $1,906,659
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,054,178

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,298,295
    Expenses
    $1,968,178
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,316,595

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.

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

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