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SO WHAT ELSE INC

EIN 27-1219231 BETHESDA, MD

Revenue 2024
$33,815,906
Expenses 2024
$33,998,005

Program services were 98.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T40
Classification
1000
Street
6901 ROCKLEDGE DR UNIT 709

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

To improve the lives of children and families living in underserved communities in the Baltimore-Washington Metro Area by providing food security, access to basic necessities, and high-quality out-of-school time programs in literacy, athletics, and the visual and performing arts while inspiring young people to give back to the community by creating volunteer opportunities for citizens of all ages.

  • Organized food and disaster relief assistance for the DC Metro and Baltimore regions. Initiated food and supply deliveries and food recovery services. Set up food and supply distribution centers for needy families in our community. Provided after school programs and summer camps.

    Expenses $33,581,507

  • GRANTS TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

    Expenses $37,036 · Grants $37,036

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • DAVID SILBERT

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $92,100
    From this org
    $92,100
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • BRETT BERNSTEIN

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBERT SCHLESS

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • MATT AMMERMAN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHELLE COOPER

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AMY KATZ

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TOSHA DYSON

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MEREDITH HELLER

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SCOTT MENDELSON

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GREGORY MINKOFF

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOSH ROSS

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NICOLLE DAVIS

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WESLEY OKERSON

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL MEERS

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AMY HOLMWOOD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUSAN LORING

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRIAN ABRHAMSON

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BOB GORDON

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JANE DUNIGAN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BARBARA GUTTERMAN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AMY EMBREY

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EMILY STEPHENSON

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BARRETT WARE

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LEROY PINGHO

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JIMMY FRAGOYANNIS

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $33,815,906
    Expenses
    $33,998,005
    Contributions
    $33,422,026
    Grants paid
    $30,883,211
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $33,761,365
    Expenses
    $33,897,060
    Contributions
    $33,413,759
    Grants paid
    $31,035,277
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,313,233
    Expenses
    $2,254,390
    Contributions
    $2,063,155
    Grants paid
    $108,100

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
    $1,729,369
    Expenses
    $1,568,329
    Assets (EOY)
    $723,269

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,204,480
    Expenses
    $892,921
    Assets (EOY)
    $521,173

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $699,268
    Expenses
    $688,622
    Assets (EOY)
    $148,268

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $573,764
    Expenses
    $563,412
    Assets (EOY)
    $136,386

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $411,417
    Expenses
    $396,599
    Assets (EOY)
    $114,626

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $351,547
    Expenses
    $324,286
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,808

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $280,316
    Expenses
    $273,329
    Assets (EOY)
    $72,547

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $213,899
    Expenses
    $229,876
    Assets (EOY)
    $65,560

  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $175,324
    Expenses
    $137,887
    Assets (EOY)
    $81,537

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $81,503
    Expenses
    $82,051
    Assets (EOY)
    $44,100

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • 4 MY CITY

    $94,750

    2022 CHARITABLE

  • LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY

    $40,769

    2023 CHARITABLE

  • LLS NORTHEAST

    $37,036

    2024

  • INFINITE FOCUS BALTIMORE

    $23,000

    2023 CHARITABLE

  • VOLUNTEER MARYLAND

    $8,950

    2022 CHARITABLE

Where these grants went next →

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 13 October 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.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.