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TAX FOUNDATION

EIN 52-1703065 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2025
$7,746,689
Expenses 2025
$9,094,340

Program services were 71.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W05
Classification
1000
Street
1325 G ST NW STE 950

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.

  • DAVE P LEWIS

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMES W LINTOTT

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • THE HONORABLE PHILIP ENGLISH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DENNIS GROTH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TOM ROESSER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KURT LAMP

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LOREN PONDS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PHIL BULLOCK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TADD FOWLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • THE HONORABLE KEVIN BRADY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPHEN KRANZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAMELA OLSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DANIEL BUNN

    PRESIDENT & CEO AND BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $408,546
    From this org
    $362,681
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $45,865
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $262,681
    Bonus
    $100,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $14,597
    Nontaxable benefits
    $31,268
    Filer's total
    $408,546

  • WILLIAM MCBRIDE

    CHIEF ECONOMIST

    Total calculated
    $237,065
    From this org
    $212,610
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,455
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $205,610
    Bonus
    $7,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $10,548
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,907
    Filer's total
    $237,065

  • ALAN COLE

    SENIOR ECONOMIST

    Total calculated
    $186,293
    From this org
    $168,494
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,799
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $164,994
    Bonus
    $3,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,656
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,143
    Filer's total
    $186,293

  • WHITNEY EVANS

    DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $185,566
    From this org
    $158,282
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,284
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $150,782
    Bonus
    $7,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,371
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,913
    Filer's total
    $185,566

  • COLBY PASTRE

    VP OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

    Total calculated
    $178,605
    From this org
    $169,099
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,506
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $162,099
    Bonus
    $7,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,452
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,054
    Filer's total
    $178,605

  • JARED WALCZAK

    VP OF STATE POLICY

    Total calculated
    $173,048
    From this org
    $164,129
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,919
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $160,129
    Bonus
    $4,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,874
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,045
    Filer's total
    $173,048

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
    $7,746,689
    Expenses
    $9,094,340
    Contributions
    $7,590,310
    Grants paid
    $532,685
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,961,604
    Expenses
    $8,922,120
    Contributions
    $7,927,485
    Grants paid
    $31,437
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,838,946
    Expenses
    $6,957,249
    Contributions
    $8,036,003
    Grants paid
    $10,223
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,768,789
    Expenses
    $5,840,958
    Contributions
    $6,864,038
    Grants paid
    $24,895

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

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

  • TAX FOUNDATION EUROPE

    501(C)(3) · TO PROVIDE EUROPEAN AUDIENCES WITH POLICY ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH · BE · 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.