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VIOLENCE POLICY CENTER

EIN 52-1571442 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2024
$1,252,027
Expenses 2024
$1,142,297

Program services were 81.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I22Z
Classification
1000
Street
805 15TH STREET NW

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

Educational, research activity on firearms violence.

  • The Violence Policy Center (VPC) conducts educational and research activities on firearms violence and related issues. VPCs ongoing educational efforts are targeted at the general public, policy makers, and the news media offering information and policy options that will be effective in reducing gun related death and injury.

    Expenses $933,626

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.

  • Josh Sugarmann

    Exec. Director

    Total calculated
    $167,124
    From this org
    $167,124
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $167,124
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $167,124

  • Jack Blum

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Laurie Halpern Benenson

    Secretary Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dan Kotowski

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Greg Barnes

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andres Soto

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marc Abraham

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Fiona FitzHerbert

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kristen Rand

    Legislative Director

    Total calculated
    $167,124
    From this org
    $167,124
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $167,124
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $167,124

  • Martin Langley

    Senior policy analyst

    Total calculated
    $127,411
    From this org
    $127,411
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $1,252,027
    Expenses
    $1,142,297
    Contributions
    $1,137,790
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,250,236
    Expenses
    $1,091,709
    Contributions
    $1,175,168
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,601,761
    Expenses
    $1,069,873
    Contributions
    $1,589,032
    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
    $1,379,047
    Expenses
    $922,130
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,196,389

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $906,262
    Expenses
    $880,888
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,769,036

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,101,595
    Expenses
    $834,966
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,664,434

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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.