Skip to content
Nonprofiteer
← All organizations

FOUNDATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES INC

EIN 13-4174402 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$32,538,609
Expenses 2024
$30,922,870

Program services were 74.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q01
Classification
1000
Street
1800 M ST NW STE 800S

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).

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.

  • Timothy Gordon

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Leonard Abramson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Isaac Applbaum

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Arditi

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Barish

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian Bilzin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Cohen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eric Dezenhall

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Larry Hochberg

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Horowitz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Kargman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lennert Leader

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Litinsky

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bernard Marcus deceased 1124

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alan Meltzer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Naftaly

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Natty Nashman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mark Pelson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mark Pruzanksi

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kenneth Schwartz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tina Snider

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Sterling

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gil Tenzer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mark Dubowitz

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $905,290
    From this org
    $848,899
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $56,391
    Hours/week
    60

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $437,505
    Bonus
    $322,500
    Other
    $88,894
    Deferred
    $10,350
    Nontaxable benefits
    $46,041
    Filer's total
    $905,290

  • Clifford May

    President

    Total calculated
    $844,320
    From this org
    $793,905
    From related orgs
    $704
    Other
    $49,711
    Hours/week
    60 + 2 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $439,412 + $704 related
    Bonus
    $322,500
    Other
    $31,993
    Deferred
    $10,350
    Nontaxable benefits
    $39,361
    Filer's total
    $843,616 + $704 related

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 — 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
    $32,538,609
    Expenses
    $30,922,870
    Contributions
    $31,956,043
    Grants paid
    $900,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $23,924,041
    Expenses
    $25,394,541
    Contributions
    $23,209,636
    Grants paid
    $500,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $18,424,072
    Expenses
    $19,996,565
    Contributions
    $17,850,316
    Grants paid
    $4,500

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

Where these grants went next →

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

  • FDD Action

    501(c)(4) · Advocate for effective policies to promote U.S. national security · DC · controlled entity

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 10 September 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.