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ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE

EIN 52-1368964 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2025
$17,421,520
Expenses 2025
$14,224,558

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
V22F
Classification
2000
Street
1225 EYE STREET NW 600

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 · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • HEIDI SHIERHOLZ

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $270,559
    From this org
    $234,679
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $35,880
    Hours/week
    38.75 + 1.25 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $234,679
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $22,028
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,852
    Filer's total
    $270,559

  • LIZ SHULER

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 0.1 related

  • JULIANNE MALVEAUX

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 0.1 related

  • GARY BASS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 0.1 related

  • TERESA GHILARDUCCI

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 0.1 related

  • JENNIFER EPPS

    NOMINATION & GOV. COM., CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • JULIE SU

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • APRIL VERRETT

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • RANDI WEINGARTEN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • NINA BANKS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • ROXANNE BROWN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • BRIAN BRYANT

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • HECTOR CORDERO-GUZMAN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • ERNESTO CORTES JR

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • CLAUDE CUMMINGS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • SHAWN FAIN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • JEFF FAUX

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 0.1 related

  • JOCELYN FRYE

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • JOSE P GARZA

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • ELISE GOULD

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • PRONITA GUPTA

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • HANNAH HALBERT

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • ROBERT KUTTNER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 0.1 related

  • LISA LYNCH

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • LORI PELLETIER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $17,421,520
    Expenses
    $14,224,558
    Contributions
    $16,559,908
    Grants paid
    $4,057,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $16,155,263
    Expenses
    $12,114,104
    Contributions
    $15,968,002
    Grants paid
    $3,081,860
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,123,876
    Expenses
    $12,164,164
    Contributions
    $7,981,595
    Grants paid
    $3,446,207

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 2025 return

  • EPI ACTION

    501(C)(4) · LOBBYING TO INFLUENCE ACTION ON SPECIFIC ECONOMIC POLICY ISSUES · DC · controlled entity

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.