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SMART GROWTH AMERICA

EIN 27-0038938 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$7,203,795
Expenses 2024
$8,484,848

Program services were 78.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C05
Classification
1200
Street
1350 I ST NW STE 425

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.

  • AMY COTTER - TERM ENDED

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • ANDRE LEROUX

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • ANITA COZART - TERM ENDED

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • ASHOK GUPTA - TERM ENDED

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • CAMILLE BROOME

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • DANIELLE ARIGONI - TERM ENDED

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • EMEKA MONEME

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • JACK MACHEK - TERM ENDED

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • JEREMY MADSEN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • MADELINE F COOK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • MAELA BILONIK - TERM ENDED

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • PATRICE FREY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • PETER KASABACH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • PETER PARK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • SHALINI VAJHALA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • STEWART SCHAWARTZ

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • SUSAN D DAGGETT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • CALVIN GLADNEY

    PRESIDENT & CEO (THROUGH 4/2025)

    Total calculated
    $302,483
    From this org
    $288,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,983
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $280,500
    Bonus
    $8,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,302
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,681
    Filer's total
    $302,483
  • ELIZABETH OSBORNE

    PRESIDENT & CEO (AS OF 4/2025)

    Total calculated
    $236,779
    From this org
    $194,663
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,116
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $194,663
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,996
    Nontaxable benefits
    $36,120
    Filer's total
    $236,779
  • ISAAC MINTZ HIRED 05302024

    VP, FINANCE AND ADMINSTRATION

    Total calculated
    $148,476
    From this org
    $133,514
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,962
    Hours/week
    40
  • ERICA COVA

    DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

    Total calculated
    $173,727
    From this org
    $163,590
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,137
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $157,590
    Bonus
    $6,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,820
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,317
    Filer's total
    $173,727
  • JOHN ROBERT SMITH

    SENIOR POLICY ADVISOR

    Total calculated
    $202,720
    From this org
    $178,045
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,675
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $178,045
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,451
    Nontaxable benefits
    $19,224
    Filer's total
    $202,720
  • KATHARINE BURGESS

    VP, LAND USE & DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $219,472
    From this org
    $179,399
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $40,073
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $179,399
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,309
    Nontaxable benefits
    $34,764
    Filer's total
    $219,472

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
    $7,203,795
    Expenses
    $8,484,848
    Contributions
    $5,395,169
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,907,576
    Expenses
    $9,699,726
    Contributions
    $4,471,333
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $11,391,002
    Expenses
    $6,936,761
    Contributions
    $10,419,152
    Grants paid
    $355,649
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $11,543,859
    Expenses
    $6,801,486
    Contributions
    $10,517,638
    Grants paid
    $355,649

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

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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 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.