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JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION INC

EIN 56-1656943 RALEIGH, NC

Revenue 2024
$5,424,918
Expenses 2024
$5,409,677

Program services were 84.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
4800 SIX FORKS RD STE 220

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.

  • DONALD BRYSON

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $226,575
    From this org
    $208,565
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,010
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $208,565
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $18,010
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $226,575

  • MICHAEL HARDEN

    EMPLOYEE

    Total calculated
    $184,025
    From this org
    $173,080
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,945
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $173,080
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $10,945
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $184,025

  • BRIAN BALFOUR

    EMPLOYEE

    Total calculated
    $132,430
    From this org
    $116,232
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,198
    Hours/week
    40

  • JON SANDERS

    EMPLOYEE

    Total calculated
    $125,897
    From this org
    $110,497
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,400
    Hours/week
    40

  • DONNA KING

    EMPLOYEE

    Total calculated
    $109,322
    From this org
    $107,443
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,879
    Hours/week
    40

  • JULIE EMMONS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0

  • BILL GRAHAM

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0

  • DAVID HOGG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0

  • JOHN HOOD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0

  • TED HICKS II

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0

  • CHRIS MELE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0

  • RODNEY PITTS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0

  • PAUL SLOBODIAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0

  • PAUL STAM

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0

  • DAVID M STOVER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0

  • EDWIN M THOMAS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0

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
    $5,424,918
    Expenses
    $5,409,677
    Contributions
    $5,293,016
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,051,424
    Expenses
    $5,571,462
    Contributions
    $5,082,009
    Grants paid
    $65,400
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,892,883
    Expenses
    $5,815,432
    Contributions
    $5,852,208
    Grants paid
    $25,750

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

  • CAROLINAS ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP NETWO

    $35,000

    2023

  • PALMETTO PROMISE INSTITUTE

    $13,000

    2023

  • SOUTH CAROLINA POLICY COUNCIL EDUCA

    $13,000

    2023

  • PALMETTO PROMISE INSTITUTE

    $12,500

    2022

  • SOUTH CAROLINA POLICY COUNCIL EDUCA

    $12,500

    2022

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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.