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COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND

EIN 31-1705370 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$26,755,383
Expenses 2024
$24,929,252

Program services were 91.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W20
Classification
1000
Street
SUITE 800

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.

  • MARTHA TIERNEY

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • OLGA KAUFFMAN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • WENDY FIELDS

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • SHAREEN PUNIAN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • NICOLE M AUSTIN-HILLERY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • RICHARD BAINTER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • BRAXTON BREWINGTON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • REBECCA COKLEY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • DAN CONLEY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • GREGORY DISKANT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • ARCHON FUNG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • VANESSA GONZALEZ

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • JENNIFER GREMMERT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • SHAE HARRIS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • CHRIS MELODY FIELDS-FIGUEREDO

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • LENNY MENDONCA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • PETER REINKE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • DAVID BEAUMONT SMITH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • REVEREND MARK THOMPSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • WES TOMER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • JESSIE ULIBARRI

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • TRACY WESTEN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • ALAN WIERSBA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • WILLIAM N HUBBARD III

    BOARD MEMBER (UNTIL 12/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • VIRGINIA KASE SOLOMON

    PRESIDENT/CEO (AS OF 2/24)

    Total calculated
    $327,392
    From this org
    $313,981
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,411
    Hours/week
    21 + 14 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $313,981
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,411
    Filer's total
    $327,392

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 — 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
    $26,755,383
    Expenses
    $24,929,252
    Contributions
    $26,191,397
    Grants paid
    $2,470,489
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $25,064,451
    Expenses
    $17,030,050
    Contributions
    $24,649,985
    Grants paid
    $1,023,950
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $13,368,234
    Expenses
    $16,648,806
    Contributions
    $13,272,005
    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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

  • COMMON CAUSE

    501(C)(4) · ADVOCATES FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN THE PROCESSES OF DEMOCRACY · DC

Declared as related by

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.