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DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION

EIN 82-1007988 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$65,735,912
Expenses 2024
$29,049,635

Program services were 90.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I83
Classification
1000
Street
1445 NEW YORK AVE NW

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.

  • MARC E ELIAS

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • MINDY MYERS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • SAM OLIKER-FRIEDMAN

    DIRECTOR (FROM 10/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TANIA FARANSSO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • JAVIER GUZMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • RON KLAIN

    DIRECTOR (UNTIL 1/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • SKYE L PERRYMAN

    PRESIDENT AND CEO

    Total calculated
    $629,081
    From this org
    $590,521
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $38,560
    Hours/week
    55 + 3.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $590,521
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,060
    Filer's total
    $629,081

  • MEGAN J UZZELL

    STRATEGIC INITIATIVES AND EXTERNAL AFFAIRS DIRECTO

    Total calculated
    $245,854
    From this org
    $208,667
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,187
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $203,667
    Bonus
    $5,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,685
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,502
    Filer's total
    $245,854

  • WILLIAM LOMAN

    GENERAL COUNCIL

    Total calculated
    $196,870
    From this org
    $176,654
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,216
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $171,654
    Bonus
    $5,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $1,579
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,637
    Filer's total
    $196,870

  • ARMOND BABOOMIAN

    CHIEF OF STAFF AND OPERATIONS & DEPUTY GENERAL COU

    Total calculated
    $190,452
    From this org
    $160,112
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,340
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $155,112
    Bonus
    $5,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,131
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,209
    Filer's total
    $190,452

  • CECILIA JACOBSEN

    CHIEF PEOPLE, CULTURE, & STRATEGY

    Total calculated
    $176,946
    From this org
    $172,939
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,007
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $167,939
    Bonus
    $5,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,559
    Nontaxable benefits
    $448
    Filer's total
    $176,946

  • VICTORIA NUGENT

    DIRECTOR FOR STATE LITIGATION AND EMERGING ISSUES

    Total calculated
    $262,271
    From this org
    $233,016
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,255
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $218,016
    Bonus
    $15,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,477
    Nontaxable benefits
    $19,778
    Filer's total
    $262,271

  • CARRIE FLAXMAN

    SENIOR LEGAL ADVISOR

    Total calculated
    $255,859
    From this org
    $218,407
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,452
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $203,407
    Bonus
    $15,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,931
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,521
    Filer's total
    $255,859

  • ROBIN F THURSTON

    LEGAL DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $246,344
    From this org
    $236,713
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,631
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $221,713
    Bonus
    $15,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,088
    Nontaxable benefits
    $543
    Filer's total
    $246,344

  • SUNU P CHANDY

    SENIOR ADVISOR

    Total calculated
    $228,955
    From this org
    $222,353
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,602
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $217,353
    Bonus
    $5,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,007
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,595
    Filer's total
    $228,955

  • BROOKE MENSCHEL

    SENIOR COUNSEL

    Total calculated
    $217,167
    From this org
    $200,577
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,590
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $185,577
    Bonus
    $15,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,090
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,500
    Filer's total
    $217,167

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
    $65,735,912
    Expenses
    $29,049,635
    Contributions
    $65,571,283
    Grants paid
    $50,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $17,752,341
    Expenses
    $13,028,095
    Contributions
    $17,686,469
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $12,350,896
    Expenses
    $8,525,354
    Contributions
    $12,366,275
    Grants paid
    $70,000

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 2024 return

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.