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LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC

EIN 52-1263436 AUBURN, AL

Revenue 2024
$16,563,360
Expenses 2024
$7,159,247

Program services were 92.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1200
Street
518 W MAGNOLIA AVE

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 PROMOTE THE ECONOMIC THEORIES OF LUDWIG VON MISES, HIS PREDECESSORS AND HIS SUCCESSORS, THROUGH TEACHING PROGRAMS, RESEARCH, FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS.

  • ADVANCEMENT OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE THROUGH PUBLICATIONS AND TEACHING PROGRAMS FOR STUDENTS, SCHOLARS AND OTHERS INTERESTED IN ECONOMIC EDUCATION.

    Expenses $4,235,497 · Revenue $411,387

  • TEACHING CONFERENCES, SEMINARS & COLLOQUIA

    Expenses $2,314,638 · Revenue $166,796

  • STUDENT FELLOWSHIP AND RESEARCH GRANTS. SUPPORT OF STUDENTS, FACULTY & POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS IN ECONOMICS.

    Expenses $53,893 · Grants $53,893 · Revenue $33,478

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.

  • LLEWELLYN H ROCKWELL JR

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $215,614
    From this org
    $215,614
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $215,614
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $215,614

  • JOHN V DENSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • RON PAUL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JOSEPH SALERNO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $116,880
    From this org
    $116,880
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • YOUSEF ALMOAYYED

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DEBORAH AYERS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • PATRICIA BARNETT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $25,000
    From this org
    $25,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • STEVE BERGER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • KAREN DECOSTER

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $205,186
    From this org
    $205,186
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $205,186
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $205,186

  • PETER KLEIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $24,000
    From this org
    $24,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • GREG MORIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • MARK MURRAH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DONALD PRINTZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • STEVE TORELLO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • THOMAS DILORENZO

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $262,068
    From this org
    $262,068
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $262,068
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $262,068

  • KRISTAL HOLMES

    EMPLOYEE

    Total calculated
    $132,342
    From this org
    $132,342
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • RYAN MCMAKEN

    EMPLOYEE

    Total calculated
    $130,342
    From this org
    $130,342
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • MICHAEL PARISH

    EMPLOYEE

    Total calculated
    $110,462
    From this org
    $110,462
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • JUDITH THOMMESEN

    EMPLOYEE

    Total calculated
    $111,601
    From this org
    $111,601
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • MELVIN DAVIS

    EMPLOYEE

    Total calculated
    $134,806
    From this org
    $134,806
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $16,563,360
    Expenses
    $7,159,247
    Contributions
    $14,101,573
    Grants paid
    $53,893
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $8,505,782
    Expenses
    $6,182,411
    Contributions
    $6,558,895
    Grants paid
    $87,180
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $8,505,782
    Expenses
    $6,182,411
    Contributions
    $6,558,895
    Grants paid
    $87,180
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $11,477,273
    Expenses
    $6,263,299
    Contributions
    $10,810,648
    Grants paid
    $136,718

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
    $8,440,639
    Expenses
    $5,057,541
    Assets (EOY)
    $45,587,383

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,470,852
    Expenses
    $5,008,583
    Assets (EOY)
    $42,553,839

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,250,383
    Expenses
    $4,227,370
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,369,255

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,711,732
    Expenses
    $3,868,540
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,394,844

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,200,056
    Expenses
    $4,165,289
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,528,612

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,795,104
    Expenses
    $3,695,926
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,362,278

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,858,113
    Expenses
    $3,600,352
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,404,269

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,859,946
    Expenses
    $3,530,757
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,216,612

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,721,062
    Expenses
    $3,640,844
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,384,398

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $3,664,707
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,268,915

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

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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.