- Revenue 2024
- $6,940,589
- Expenses 2024
- $3,609,448
Program services were 72.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 04
- NTEE code
- W05
- Classification
- 3000
- Street
- 1155 F STREET NW STE 1050
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
DeFi Education Fund is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization committed to advocating for sound DeFi policy. At DEF, we are working to build a mainstream understanding of decentralized finance, and protect the rights of developers, users, and projects to freely create decentralized infrastructure and technology.
Activities or mission (Part I)
See Part III, Line 1.
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Policy Litigation: Comprehensive policy work including legal actions, research, and analysis aimed at shaping the regulatory environment for DeFi. Encompasses defending DeFi protocols through litigation, filing amicus briefs, developing substantive research and white papers, producting regulatory analysis and comment letters, and providing legal supoprt in cases with significant implications to DeFi's regulatory treatment.
Expenses $1,061,973
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Lobbying Activities:Direct advocacy with legislators and regulators to advance policy positions that promote innovation and freedom to build DeFi technology.
Expenses $598,714
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Public Relations:External communication and community engagement activities that educate members of the public about how DeFi technology works and raise awareness about DeFi policy issues.
Expenses $245,582
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Grants to other organizations
Expenses $216,250 · Grants $216,250
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Policy meetings / policy research / other programs.
Expenses $491,728
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.
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Marc Boiron
Director, President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Rebecca Rettig
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Jake Chervinsky
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Amanda Tuminelli
CLO, Secretary
- Total calculated
- $537,017
- From this org
- $514,423
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $22,594
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $451,090
- Bonus
- $63,333
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $13,600
- Nontaxable benefits
- $8,994
- Filer's total
- $537,017
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Miller Whitehouse-Levine
CEO
- Total calculated
- $396,289
- From this org
- $367,595
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $28,694
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $323,595
- Bonus
- $44,000
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $23,000
- Nontaxable benefits
- $5,694
- Filer's total
- $396,289
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Larry Sukernik
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Lizandro Pieper
Research Director
- Total calculated
- $130,727
- From this org
- $119,767
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $10,960
- Hours/week
- 40
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Max Bernstein
Communications & Operation
- Total calculated
- $196,926
- From this org
- $174,452
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $22,474
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $158,952
- Bonus
- $15,500
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $7,846
- Nontaxable benefits
- $14,628
- Filer's total
- $196,926
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
- $6,940,589
- Expenses
- $3,609,448
- Contributions
- $10,429,765
- Grants paid
- $216,250
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2023
- Revenue
- $438,672
- Expenses
- $3,781,810
- Contributions
- $438,616
- Grants paid
- $556,250
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2022
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $3,475,763
- Contributions
- $0
- Grants paid
- $610,542
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $20,538,667
- Expenses
- $921,980
- Assets (EOY)
- $18,078,313
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
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Fight for the Future Education Fund
$431,250
2023 Program Support.
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$375,876
2022 The grant will be used to support the organization's lobbying and grassroots campaign efforts around decentralized finance (DeFi). Fight for the Future will build in-house capacity through its existing team to engage on crypto and DeFi policy issues.
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Fight for the Future Education Fund
$143,750
2024 Program Support.
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$125,000
2022 The grant will be used to support a fellow program at Cato's Center for Monetaryand Financial Alternatives focused on decentralized finance (DeFi) with the goal of building a new generation of researchers focused on DeFi by giving individuals the opportunity to study the space.
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$62,500
2023 Program Support.
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2023 Program Support.
-
2024 Program Support.
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$62,500
2022 The grant will be used to support a fellowship program focused on decentralized finance (DeFi) with the goal of building the first generation of researchers focused on DeFi and studying the policy implications of DeFi.
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2022 The grant will be used to support the Wilson Center as they host a fellow to work on decentralized finance (DeFi) related projects.
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Creative Outfit Inc
$10,000
2024 Program Support.
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Grants received
No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.
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
Not present in the most recent drop.
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.