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INTERNET SOCIETY

EIN 54-1650477 FREDERICKSBURG, VA

Revenue 2024
$47,978,162
Expenses 2024
$43,636,588

Program services were 71.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q300
Classification
1000
Street
1551 EMANCIPATION HWY 1506

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.

  • Barry Leiba

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6 + 1 related

  • Brian Haberman

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6 + 1 related

  • Caleb Ogundele

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6 + 1 related

  • Charles Mok

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6 + 1 related

  • Jon Peterson

    Trustee (Thru 06/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6 + 1 related

  • Kathleen Moriarty

    Trustee (As of 06/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6 + 1 related

  • Laura Thomson

    Trustee/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6 + 1.3 related

  • Luis Martinez

    Trustee (Thru 06/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6 + 1 related

  • Maureen Hilyard

    Trustee (As of 06/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6 + 1 related

  • Olufunke Baruwa

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6 + 1 related

  • Ramanou Biaou

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6 + 1 related

  • Robert Pepper

    Trustee (Thru 06/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6 + 1 related

  • Russell Housley

    Trustee (As of 06/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6 + 1 related

  • Sagarika Wickramasekera

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6 + 1 related

  • Ted Hardie

    Trustee/Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    16 + 4 related

  • Victor Kuarsingh

    Trustee/Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6 + 1 related

  • Andrew Sullivan

    President and Chief Executive Officer (Thru 08/24)

    Total calculated
    $771,861
    From this org
    $546,137
    From related orgs
    $182,046
    Other
    $43,678
    Hours/week
    40 + 5.3 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $187,875 + $62,626 related
    Bonus
    $89,365 + $29,788 related
    Other
    $268,897 + $89,632 related
    Deferred
    $30,287 + $10,096 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,471 + $824 related
    Filer's total
    $578,895 + $192,966 related

  • Ilona Levine

    Senior Vice President and General Counsel

    Total calculated
    $415,094
    From this org
    $208,522
    From related orgs
    $117,293
    Other
    $89,279
    Hours/week
    40 + 5.3 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $176,324 + $99,182 related
    Bonus
    $31,680 + $17,820 related
    Other
    $518 + $291 related
    Deferred
    $32,928 + $18,522 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $24,210 + $13,619 related
    Filer's total
    $265,660 + $149,434 related

  • Sae-Young Park

    Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

    Total calculated
    $400,654
    From this org
    $196,309
    From related orgs
    $110,424
    Other
    $93,921
    Hours/week
    40 + 5.3 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $168,656 + $94,869 related
    Bonus
    $27,136 + $15,264 related
    Other
    $517 + $291 related
    Deferred
    $30,950 + $17,409 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,160 + $16,402 related
    Filer's total
    $256,419 + $144,235 related

  • Sally Wentworth

    President and Chief Executive Officer (As of 09/24)

    Total calculated
    $531,329
    From this org
    $399,090
    From related orgs
    $36,281
    Other
    $95,958
    Hours/week
    40 + 5.3 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $340,322 + $30,938 related
    Bonus
    $58,025 + $5,275 related
    Other
    $743 + $68 related
    Deferred
    $61,834 + $5,621 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,128 + $2,375 related
    Filer's total
    $487,052 + $44,277 related

  • Dawit Bekele

    Regional Vice President - Africa

    Total calculated
    $365,901
    From this org
    $323,715
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,186
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $291,668
    Bonus
    $20,948
    Other
    $11,099
    Deferred
    $42,186
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $365,901

  • Erica Ellison

    Senior Vice President, People & Culture

    Total calculated
    $307,743
    From this org
    $247,809
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $59,934
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $234,567
    Bonus
    $12,050
    Other
    $1,192
    Deferred
    $37,958
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,976
    Filer's total
    $307,743

  • Joseph Hall

    Distinguished Technologist, Strong Internet

    Total calculated
    $353,904
    From this org
    $277,612
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $76,292
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $235,422
    Bonus
    $41,400
    Other
    $790
    Deferred
    $42,990
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,302
    Filer's total
    $353,904

  • Katie Bengaard

    Senior Vice President, Strategy

    Total calculated
    $305,117
    From this org
    $236,773
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $68,344
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $214,303
    Bonus
    $22,000
    Other
    $470
    Deferred
    $36,762
    Nontaxable benefits
    $31,582
    Filer's total
    $305,117

  • Sebastian Bellagamba

    Vice President, External and Community Engagement

    Total calculated
    $341,598
    From this org
    $341,598
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $271,131
    Bonus
    $27,574
    Other
    $42,893
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $341,598

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $47,978,162
    Expenses
    $43,636,588
    Contributions
    $42,888,971
    Grants paid
    $5,361,734
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $44,657,843
    Expenses
    $44,179,712
    Contributions
    $40,234,561
    Grants paid
    $3,270,716
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $42,547,621
    Expenses
    $47,999,864
    Contributions
    $40,209,360
    Grants paid
    $4,150,799

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

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 2024 return

  • PUBLIC INTEREST REGISTRY

    501(c)(3) · OPERATOR OF DOMAIN NAMES · PA · controlled entity

  • INTERNET SOCIETY ASIA LIMITED

    PROVIDES VISIBILITY & SUPPORT IN THE ASIA- PACIFIC REGION · SN · controlled entity

  • INTERNET SOCIETY FOUNDATION

    501(c)(3) · TO SUPPORT ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING GRANT-MAKING FOR INTERNET SOCIETY · DC · controlled entity

  • CONNECTED GIVING FOUNDATION

    501(c)(3) · TO SUPPORT ACTIVITIES OF INTERNET SOCIETY · PA · controlled entity

  • INTERNET SOCIETY EUROPE

    Implements regional advocacy and community engagement activities in Europe · BE · controlled entity

Declared as related by

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.