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EIN 52-6078441 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2023
$8,424,651
Expenses 2023
$9,324,418

Program services were 56.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Classification
1000
Street
805 15TH ST NW STE 800

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.

  • MARILYN CARPINTEYRO

    CO-PRESIDENT (UNTIL 2/24)

    Total calculated
    $231,235
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $195,559
    Other
    $35,676
    Hours/week
    0 + 37.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $195,559 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $5,250 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $30,426 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $231,235 related

  • JORDAN DAVIS

    CO-PRESIDENT (UNTIL 2/24)

    Total calculated
    $221,949
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $187,108
    Other
    $34,841
    Hours/week
    0 + 37.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $187,108 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $12,202 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $22,639 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $221,949 related

  • MARTHA TIERNEY

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • NANCY RATZAN

    VICE CHAIR (UNTIL 3/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • OLGA KAUFFMAN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • WENDY FIELDS

    VICE CHAIR (AS OF 6/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • OLENA BERG LACY

    TREASURER (UNTIL 10/23)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • SHAREEN PUNIAN

    TREASURER (AS OF 6/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • NICOLE M AUSTIN-HILLERY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • RICHARD BAINTER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • BRAXTON BREWINGTON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • REBECCA COKLEY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • DAN CONLEY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • GREGORY DISKANT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • ARCHON FUNG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • SHAE HARRIS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • WILLIAM N HUBBARD III

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • MARILYN MELKONIAN

    BOARD MEMBER (UNTIL 10/23)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • LENNY MENDONCA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • CHANG K PARK

    BOARD MEMBER (UNTIL 10/23)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • BILAL DABIR SEKOU PHD

    BOARD MEMBER (UNTIL 03/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • DAVID BEAUMONT SMITH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • WES TOMER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • JESSIE ULIBARRI

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • TRACY WESTEN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $8,424,651
    Expenses
    $9,324,418
    Contributions
    $8,165,481
    Grants paid
    $283,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,438,547
    Expenses
    $9,702,346
    Contributions
    $8,257,989
    Grants paid
    $0

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 2023 return

Declared as related by

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.

  • PUBLIC INTEREST COMMUNICATIONS INC.

    $2,244 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$8,813 to charity

  • PUBLIC INTEREST COMMUNICATIONS INC.

    $39,019 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    $2,118 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

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.