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ACTIONAID USA

EIN 52-2277575 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2025
$1,765,065
Expenses 2025
$3,539,770

Program services were 69.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
V35
Classification
1000
Street
1220 L ST NW STE 725

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.

  • GEOFFREY KNOX

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BURHAN RAZI

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANNE-MAREA GRIFFIN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FARAN SAEED

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALKA KOTHARI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RACHEL CARLE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VICTORIA WIGODZKY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JENNIFER AMUZIE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CYNTHIA CABRERA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NIRANJALI AMERASINGHE

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $173,353
    From this org
    $161,279
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,074
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $161,279
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,276
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,798
    Filer's total
    $173,353

  • RICHARD PAYLING-WRIGHT

    DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & ADMI

    Total calculated
    $136,629
    From this org
    $122,683
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,946
    Hours/week
    40

  • BRANDON WU

    DIRECTOR OF POLICY & CAMPA

    Total calculated
    $126,478
    From this org
    $113,755
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,723
    Hours/week
    40

  • MEREDITH SLATER

    DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $116,558
    From this org
    $113,299
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,259
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $1,765,065
    Expenses
    $3,539,770
    Contributions
    $1,742,764
    Grants paid
    $1,506,608
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,798,214
    Expenses
    $4,684,847
    Contributions
    $3,780,541
    Grants paid
    $2,462,965
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,820,978
    Expenses
    $5,284,592
    Contributions
    $6,820,516
    Grants paid
    $3,128,641

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.

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • QCSS INC.

    $981 raised

    2021 Commercial Fundraiser

    $0 to charity

  • QCSS INC.

    $640 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    $0 to charity

  • QCSS INC.

    $375 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    $0 to charity

  • ARIA COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION

    $340 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    $0 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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.