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AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL

EIN 52-1274529 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$3,199,958
Expenses 2024
$2,925,326

Program services were 80.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q055
Classification
2000
Street
509 C ST NE

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

AFPC'S PRIMARY EXEMPT PURPOSE IS TO BRING INFORMATION TO THOSE WHO MAKE OR INFLUENCE THE NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES AND ARRANGE MEETINGS AND FACILITATE DIALOGUE BETWEEN AMERICAN STATESMEN AND THEIR COUNTERPARTS IN OTHER COUNTRIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

REFER TO FORM 990, PART III, LINE 1

  • PUBLIC DIPLOMACY - AFPC HOLDS MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES, IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ABROAD, THAT BRING TOGETHER THOSE WHO MAKE OR INFLUENCE FOREIGN POLICY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND OTHER COUNTRIES.

    Expenses $737,685 · Revenue $4,000

  • BULLETINS AND PUBLICATIONS - AFPC RESEARCHES, PREPARES, AND PUBLISHES NUMEROUS BULLETINS AND PUBLICATIONS WITH THE INTENT TO PROVIDE A TIMELY AND INSIGHTFUL ANALYSIS ON ISSUES OF FOREIGN POLICY AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY.

    Expenses $746,924

  • CENTRAL ASIA-CAUCASUS INSTITUTE - AFPC PROVIDES INFORMATION, RESEARCH, AND ANALYSIS ON THE VAST TERRITORY OF CENTRAL EURASIA STRETCHING FROM TURKEY TO WESTERN CHINA, WITH THE AIM TO HELP BRING GREATER ATTENTION TO THESE REGIONS AMONG OFFICIALS AND POLICYMAKERS.

    Expenses $773,561 · Grants $154,604

  • POLICY OUTREACH AND CONFERENCES - AFPC PROVIDES INFORMATION AND FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS TO THE MEDIA, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, AND KEY NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION EXPERTS IN MEETINGS, WEBINARS, AND PODCASTS, AND THROUGH WRITTEN COMMUNICATION. AFPC ATTENDS CONFERENCES ON FOREIGN POLICY AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY THAT ARE HOSTED BY THIRD PARTIES TO DISCUSS ISSUES OF FOREIGN POLICY AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY.

    Expenses $109,158

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Herman Pirchner Jr

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $258,613
    From this org
    $240,570
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,043
    Hours/week
    55

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $240,570
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,672
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,371
    Filer's total
    $258,613
  • Christopher Manion

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ann Miller Coleman

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kenneth Hannan Jr

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jon Etherton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Julia Burke

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael W Gleba

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gregory Dryer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ilan Berman

    SENIOR VP & SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $268,017
    From this org
    $224,244
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,773
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $224,244
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,600
    Nontaxable benefits
    $34,173
    Filer's total
    $268,017
  • Rich Harrison

    VP OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $209,778
    From this org
    $182,268
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,510
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $182,268
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,600
    Nontaxable benefits
    $19,910
    Filer's total
    $209,778
  • Calnen Annie Swingen

    DIRECTOR OF EXTERNAL RELAT

    Total calculated
    $155,402
    From this org
    $135,324
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,078
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $135,324
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,687
    Nontaxable benefits
    $14,391
    Filer's total
    $155,402
  • David Soumbadze

    RUMSFELD FELLOWSHIP DIRECT

    Total calculated
    $146,688
    From this org
    $106,517
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $40,171
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $3,199,958
    Expenses
    $2,925,326
    Contributions
    $3,197,790
    Grants paid
    $154,604
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,744,444
    Expenses
    $3,051,773
    Contributions
    $2,714,112
    Grants paid
    $338,950
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,468,810
    Expenses
    $2,959,930
    Contributions
    $3,450,968
    Grants paid
    $442,212

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
    $2,222,763
    Expenses
    $2,395,211
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,810,666
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,488,732
    Expenses
    $2,164,014
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,825,903
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,941,359
    Expenses
    $2,316,108
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,513,327
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,828,896
    Expenses
    $2,423,001
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,989,233
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,881,916
    Expenses
    $2,354,853
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,646,821
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,645,627
    Expenses
    $1,711,201
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,177,505
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,841,033
    Expenses
    $1,552,242
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,217,532
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,167,063
    Expenses
    $1,370,675
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,053,108
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,307,003
    Expenses
    $1,298,993
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,306,604
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,233,310
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,366,553

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.

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

  • S FREDERICK STARR FOUNDATION FOR STUDY OF CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS

    501(C)(3) · CONDUCT, SUPPORT & ADVANCE RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP ON CNTRL ASIA & CAUCASUS · DC

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.