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CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES

EIN 52-1234565 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$52,523,656
Expenses 2024
$48,575,049

Program services were 86.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W050
Classification
2000
Street
1275 1ST ST NE STE 1200

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.

  • Ken Apfel

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Henry Aaron

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kim Wallace

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mayra E Alvarez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Maria Cancian

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Henry A Coleman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David de Ferranti

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Jimenez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lili Lynton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • C Lynn McNair

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ai-jen Poo

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert D Reischaer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Samantha Tweedy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sharon Parrott

    President

    Total calculated
    $406,147
    From this org
    $352,602
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $53,545
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $352,007
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $595
    Deferred
    $24,150
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,395
    Filer's total
    $406,147

  • Lisa Bornstein

    COO and General Counsel thru 8/16/24

    Total calculated
    $333,538
    From this org
    $295,093
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $38,445
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $182,782
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $112,311
    Deferred
    $12,988
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,457
    Filer's total
    $333,538

  • Lynda Brooks

    Chief Financial officer

    Total calculated
    $255,379
    From this org
    $228,470
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,909
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $227,954
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $516
    Deferred
    $15,341
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,568
    Filer's total
    $255,379

  • Shannon Spillane Buckingham

    SVP Communications and Sr Counselor

    Total calculated
    $290,220
    From this org
    $239,010
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $51,210
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $238,830
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $180
    Deferred
    $17,315
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,895
    Filer's total
    $290,220

  • Peggy Bailey

    Exec VP Policy & Program Development

    Total calculated
    $256,970
    From this org
    $229,308
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,662
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $229,032
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $276
    Deferred
    $16,281
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,381
    Filer's total
    $256,970

  • Ellen Nissenbaum

    Senior VP - Government Affairs

    Total calculated
    $303,284
    From this org
    $272,020
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $31,264
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $270,496
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $1,524
    Deferred
    $19,196
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,068
    Filer's total
    $303,284

  • Charles Marr

    VP - Federal Tax Policy

    Total calculated
    $259,005
    From this org
    $240,239
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,766
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $239,447
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $792
    Deferred
    $16,766
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,000
    Filer's total
    $259,005

  • Joel Friedman

    Senior VP - Federal Fiscal Policy

    Total calculated
    $283,294
    From this org
    $239,931
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,363
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $238,407
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $1,524
    Deferred
    $17,106
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,257
    Filer's total
    $283,294

  • Allison Orris

    Senior Fellow

    Total calculated
    $260,862
    From this org
    $231,166
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,696
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $230,890
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $276
    Deferred
    $16,428
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,268
    Filer's total
    $260,862

  • Michael Leachman

    Senior Vice President of SFP

    Total calculated
    $275,085
    From this org
    $229,380
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $45,705
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $228,864
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $516
    Deferred
    $16,310
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,395
    Filer's total
    $275,085

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
    $52,523,656
    Expenses
    $48,575,049
    Contributions
    $48,530,182
    Grants paid
    $10,726,910
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $32,208,552
    Expenses
    $44,312,883
    Contributions
    $28,859,773
    Grants paid
    $10,565,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $80,451,696
    Expenses
    $42,656,596
    Contributions
    $78,341,235
    Grants paid
    $8,300,697

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.

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.