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CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM

EIN 52-1847187 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$11,749,219
Expenses 2024
$22,559,312

Program services were 98.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A33Z
Classification
2000
Street
1455 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW STE 540

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 · 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.

  • JEANNE ALLEN

    FOUNDER AND CEO

    Total calculated
    $547,821
    From this org
    $547,821
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    65

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $477,100
    Bonus
    $70,721
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $547,821

  • DONALD HENSE

    CHAIRMAN AND SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL MOE

    CHAIRMAN & SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MAGGIE ZULUETA

    DIRECTOR & INTERIM TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KEVIN CHAVOUS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRIS WHITTLE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JANINE YASS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL MUSANTE

    EXECUTIVE VP

    Total calculated
    $393,120
    From this org
    $370,120
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,000
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $370,120
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $23,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $393,120

  • ROBERT BLEVINS

    COO

    Total calculated
    $433,158
    From this org
    $411,379
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,779
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $411,379
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,779
    Filer's total
    $433,158

  • CAROLINE ALLEN

    CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $174,757
    From this org
    $146,461
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,296
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $146,461
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,702
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,594
    Filer's total
    $174,757

  • KATHERINE NELLIGAN

    DIRECTOR OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

    Total calculated
    $147,171
    From this org
    $138,029
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,142
    Hours/week
    40

  • ALEXANDER AUDET

    DIRECTOR OF DATA AND TECHNOLOGY

    Total calculated
    $130,284
    From this org
    $125,656
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,628
    Hours/week
    40

  • JOSEPHINA RAGO

    SENIOR PARTNERSHIP MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $124,325
    From this org
    $114,789
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,536
    Hours/week
    40

  • THEODORE ALLEN

    CREATIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $109,578
    From this org
    $104,682
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,896
    Hours/week
    30

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $11,749,219
    Expenses
    $22,559,312
    Contributions
    $11,613,429
    Grants paid
    $14,911,728
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $45,087,867
    Expenses
    $32,087,026
    Contributions
    $45,080,396
    Grants paid
    $25,547,050
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $30,674,796
    Expenses
    $30,411,654
    Contributions
    $30,667,026
    Grants paid
    $26,110,053
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $30,674,796
    Expenses
    $30,411,654
    Contributions
    $30,667,026
    Grants paid
    $26,110,053

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

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.