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PUBLIC DEMOCRACY AMERICA

EIN 27-1017781 GREAT FALLS, VA

Revenue 2024
$5,181,230
Expenses 2024
$4,956,575

Program services were 82.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C01
Classification
2000
Street
10001 GEORGETOWN PIKE UNIT 317

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.

  • SCOTT SHALETT

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $202,800
    From this org
    $202,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $184,800
    Bonus
    $18,000
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $202,800

  • RACHEL JOHNSON

    DEPUTY DIREC

    Total calculated
    $172,800
    From this org
    $172,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,800
    Bonus
    $18,000
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $172,800

  • JASON COHEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHANNON HOPKINS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROB LALKA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ERIC SAPP

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JIM SYPE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $5,181,230
    Expenses
    $4,956,575
    Contributions
    $4,820,375
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,364,958
    Expenses
    $2,545,932
    Contributions
    $2,364,958
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,396,018
    Expenses
    $6,111,082
    Contributions
    $6,396,018
    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

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2012, reinstated 15 May 2012.

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.