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CENTER FOR THE NATIONAL INTEREST INC

EIN 26-2117013 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$2,733,313
Expenses 2024
$2,030,808

Program services were 80.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W05
Classification
2000
Street
1025 CONNECTICUT AVENUE 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).

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.

  • PAUL J SAUNDERS

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $150,000
    From this org
    $150,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • JACOB E HEILBRUNN

    EDITOR - THE NATIONAL INTEREST

    Total calculated
    $142,911
    From this org
    $142,911
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • MAURICE E GREENBERG

    CHAIRMAN, EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DREW GUFF

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • SENATOR PAT ROBERTS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • GRAHAM ALLISON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • AMBASSADOR RICHARD BURT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • KRIS ELFTMANN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DAVID KEENE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • AMBASSADOR ZALMAY KHALILZAD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JULIE NIXON EISENHOWER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • GROVER NORQUIST

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • WILLIAM RUGER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DAVID ZALAZNICK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • AHMED CHARAI

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CLAIRE KAISER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • GENERAL GLEN VANHERCK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,733,313
    Expenses
    $2,030,808
    Contributions
    $1,082,640
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,462,338
    Expenses
    $826,989
    Contributions
    $1,066,154
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,876,891
    Expenses
    $2,566,648
    Contributions
    $839,333
    Grants paid
    $30,000

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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

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.