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AMERICAN ACTION FORUM INC

EIN 27-0567765 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$4,436,380
Expenses 2024
$4,142,016

Program services were 80.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
V05
Classification
1000
Street
1747 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW STE 5

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.

  • LAUREN MADDOX

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN MCKERNAN

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KEVIN BRADY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NORM COLEMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KEN KIES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BOBBIE KILBERG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUSAN MOLINARI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPHANIE MONROE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JC WATTS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SARAH SMITH

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $191,342
    From this org
    $186,588
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,754
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $186,588
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,470
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,284
    Filer's total
    $191,342

  • DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $311,791
    From this org
    $309,333
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,458
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $309,333
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $2,400
    Nontaxable benefits
    $58
    Filer's total
    $311,791

  • THOMAS DANIEL RYAN

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $205,111
    From this org
    $174,709
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,402
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $174,709
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $212
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,190
    Filer's total
    $205,111

  • THOMAS KINGSLEY

    DIR OF FINANCIAL SERVICES POLICY

    Total calculated
    $120,519
    From this org
    $119,850
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $669
    Hours/week
    40

  • ANGELA KUCK

    DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

    Total calculated
    $176,691
    From this org
    $164,719
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,972
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $164,719
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,050
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,922
    Filer's total
    $176,691

  • FREDERICK ASHTON

    DIR OF COMPETITION POLICY

    Total calculated
    $142,875
    From this org
    $134,774
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,101
    Hours/week
    40

  • JEFFREY WESTLING

    DIR OF TECHNOLOGY/INNOVATION POLICY

    Total calculated
    $130,017
    From this org
    $122,469
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,548
    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 — 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
    $4,436,380
    Expenses
    $4,142,016
    Contributions
    $4,370,315
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,975,124
    Expenses
    $3,748,598
    Contributions
    $3,916,083
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,319,992
    Expenses
    $3,885,369
    Contributions
    $4,291,935
    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.

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 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.