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EMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC

EIN 46-1987418 ALBANY, NY

Revenue 2024
$1,021,554
Expenses 2024
$754,437

Program services were 75.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W052
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 7113

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.

  • JULIE KILLIAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MELINDA OAKES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LUKE JACOBS

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BOB CONFER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANITA MACDOUGALL

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PETER C HEIN

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • ZILVINAS SILENAS

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $77,311
    From this org
    $62,071
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,240
    Hours/week
    40

  • CAMERON MACDONALD

    GENERAL COUNSEL

    Total calculated
    $118,810
    From this org
    $115,350
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,460
    Hours/week
    40

  • TIMOTHY P HOEFER

    FORMER DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $43,073
    From this org
    $33,933
    From related orgs
    $7,885
    Other
    $1,255
    Hours/week
    20 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $31,600 + $7,885 related
    Bonus
    $2,333
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $1,018 + $237 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $34,951 + $8,122 related

  • DEBI GHATE

    FORMER DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $169,146
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $164,065
    Other
    $5,081
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $164,065 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $5,081 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $169,146 related

  • KENNETH GIRARDIN

    FORMER DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH

    Total calculated
    $108,072
    From this org
    $103,569
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,503
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $103,569
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,107
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,396
    Filer's total
    $108,072

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. 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
    $1,021,554
    Expenses
    $754,437
    Contributions
    $1,016,784
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,590,232
    Expenses
    $1,436,379
    Contributions
    $1,587,815
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,319,051
    Expenses
    $1,881,965
    Contributions
    $1,318,840
    Grants paid
    $125,150

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

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

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2023 return

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.

What this page reflects

The IRS Business Master File ingested 5 October 2026, which is when the registration facts above were last refreshed for every organization. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.