- Revenue 2023
- $4,607,322
- Expenses 2023
- $4,556,267
Program services were 94.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Street
- 111 K ST NE 6TH FLOOR
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 · 2023
As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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PAUL BECKNER
BOARD CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
BETSY ALBAUGH
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TED ABRAM
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOAN CARTER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
MARILYN HAYDEN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ROB LANSING
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
NICOLA OPDYCKE
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ADAM BRANDON
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $400,601
- From this org
- $229,362
- From related orgs
- $123,503
- Other
- $47,736
- Hours/week
- 26 + 14 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $229,245 + $123,440 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $117 + $63 related
- Deferred
- $14,625 + $7,875 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $16,403 + $8,833 related
- Filer's total
- $260,390 + $140,211 related
-
PARISSA SEDGHI FORNWALT
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
NOAH WALL
EXEC. VICE PRESIDENT (UNTIL 3/7/23)
- Total calculated
- $145,005
- From this org
- $86,999
- From related orgs
- $46,846
- Other
- $11,160
- Hours/week
- 26 + 14 related
-
MARGARET IUCULANO
EXEC. VICE PRESIDENT (3-8/2023)
- Total calculated
- $215,845
- From this org
- $128,749
- From related orgs
- $69,327
- Other
- $17,769
- Hours/week
- 26 + 14 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $128,749 + $69,327 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $11,550 + $6,219 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $140,299 + $75,546 related
-
JOHN TAMNY
DIR. CENTER FOR ECONOMIC FREEDOM
- Total calculated
- $219,395
- From this org
- $147,771
- From related orgs
- $16,419
- Other
- $55,205
- Hours/week
- 36 + 4 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $147,771 + $16,419 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $27,000 + $3,000 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $22,685 + $2,520 related
- Filer's total
- $197,456 + $21,939 related
-
PHILLIP BELL
DIR. OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS
- Total calculated
- $165,916
- From this org
- $108,885
- From related orgs
- $42,344
- Other
- $14,687
- Hours/week
- 26 + 14 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $108,885 + $42,344 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $3,981 + $2,144 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $5,565 + $2,997 related
- Filer's total
- $118,431 + $47,485 related
-
MATTHEW CARNOVALE
VP OF DEVELOPMENT
- Total calculated
- $148,556
- From this org
- $90,874
- From related orgs
- $48,932
- Other
- $8,750
- Hours/week
- 26 + 14 related
-
LAURA ZORC
VP OF PROG. & E.D. OF B.E.S.T.
- Total calculated
- $141,216
- From this org
- $67,754
- From related orgs
- $36,483
- Other
- $36,979
- Hours/week
- 26 + 14 related
-
JONATHAN EBERLE
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
- Total calculated
- $113,020
- From this org
- $65,462
- From related orgs
- $35,249
- Other
- $12,309
- Hours/week
- 26 + 14 related
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
-
2023
- Revenue
- $4,607,322
- Expenses
- $4,556,267
- Contributions
- $4,603,649
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $7,186,346
- Expenses
- $8,423,843
- Contributions
- $7,139,619
- Grants paid
- $33,656
-
2022
- Revenue
- $7,186,346
- Expenses
- $8,423,843
- Contributions
- $7,139,619
- Grants paid
- $33,656
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
-
ROBERT SMALLS LEGACY FOUNDATION
$33,656
2022 TO FURTHER THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION.
Grants received
-
$962,000
2022 for general operations
-
2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
$529,200
2023 for general operations
-
2022 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
-
2023 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
-
2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT THOUGHT INC
$300,000
2023 JT PROJECTJT PROJECCT
-
$164,000
2023 Training Seminars
-
$150,000
2022 for School Board Member Academy
-
$100,000
2023 for the School Board Member Academy
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 2023 return
-
501(C)(4) · EXISTS TO BUILD, EDUCATE, AND MOBILIZE ACTIVISTS · DC
Declared as related by
-
On its 2023 return as a 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
Not present in the most recent drop.
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.