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RAISE YOUR HAND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS

EIN 20-8119071 AUSTIN, TX

Revenue 2024
$7,919,409
Expenses 2024
$7,726,777

Program services were 88.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
A01
Classification
1000
Street
1005 CONGRESS AVE STE 150

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.

  • MICHELLE SMITH

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/SEC (UNTIL 05/24)

    Total calculated
    $472,122
    From this org
    $448,554
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,568
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $127,998
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $320,556
    Deferred
    $5,242
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,326
    Filer's total
    $472,122

  • CHARLES CLINES

    PRESIDENT/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 5 related

  • ELIZABETH LORENZ

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 38 related

  • SARAH ELIZONDO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • GEORGINA PODJENSKI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 5 related

  • BARBARA TAYLOR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • ELIZABETH COHEN

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (EFF 06/24)

    Total calculated
    $262,331
    From this org
    $223,418
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $38,913
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $223,237
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $181
    Deferred
    $8,713
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,200
    Filer's total
    $262,331

  • JOLISA HOOVER

    DIR OF SPECIAL PROJECTS

    Total calculated
    $173,706
    From this org
    $150,461
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,245
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $150,154
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $307
    Deferred
    $6,130
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,115
    Filer's total
    $173,706

  • WILLIAM HOLLEMAN

    DIRECTOR OF GOVT RELATIONS

    Total calculated
    $252,076
    From this org
    $224,385
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,691
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $170,548
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $53,837
    Deferred
    $4,965
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,726
    Filer's total
    $252,076

  • ROBERT POPENSKI

    DIRECTOR OF POLICY PROGRAM

    Total calculated
    $267,493
    From this org
    $242,290
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,203
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $241,941
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $349
    Deferred
    $9,592
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,611
    Filer's total
    $267,493

  • KATHRYN ANNE TIEDT

    COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST

    Total calculated
    $218,973
    From this org
    $163,981
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $54,992
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $163,763
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $218
    Deferred
    $6,929
    Nontaxable benefits
    $48,063
    Filer's total
    $218,973

  • CHARLES GAINES

    CHIEF OF STAFF

    Total calculated
    $232,000
    From this org
    $186,438
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $45,562
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $186,289
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $149
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $45,562
    Filer's total
    $232,000

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
    $7,919,409
    Expenses
    $7,726,777
    Contributions
    $7,800,000
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,565,847
    Expenses
    $7,943,516
    Contributions
    $7,570,317
    Grants paid
    $245,150
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,101,000
    Expenses
    $8,304,567
    Contributions
    $8,101,000
    Grants paid
    $341,628

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
    $4,750,075
    Expenses
    $4,985,621
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,029,116

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,750,000
    Expenses
    $2,020,536
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,447,948

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,000,500
    Expenses
    $3,547,613
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,752,984

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,600,000
    Expenses
    $2,660,993
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,238,079

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,379,212
    Expenses
    $3,670,414
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,621,086

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,000,000
    Expenses
    $5,240,333
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,895,375

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,701,500
    Expenses
    $6,549,325
    Assets (EOY)
    $123,900

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,200,600
    Expenses
    $6,049,264
    Assets (EOY)
    -$28,275

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,075,552
    Expenses
    $6,367,959
    Assets (EOY)
    -$181,388

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

Where these grants went next →

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

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 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.