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AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION

EIN 84-0437750 DENVER, CO

Revenue 2024
$2,212,079
Expenses 2024
$1,723,419

Program services were 85.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Classification
1000
Street
303 E 17TH AVE STE 350

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).

Group exemption

A subordinate covered by the group exemption of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC (EIN 13-3871360). matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

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.

  • Deborah Richardson

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $273,527
    From this org
    $81,326
    From related orgs
    $165,116
    Other
    $27,085
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $81,326 + $165,116 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,938 + $18,147 related
    Filer's total
    $90,264 + $183,263 related

  • Vanessa Michel

    Deputy Director

    Total calculated
    $206,276
    From this org
    $62,759
    From related orgs
    $127,421
    Other
    $16,096
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $62,759 + $127,421 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,312 + $10,784 related
    Filer's total
    $68,071 + $138,205 related

  • Tim Macdonald

    Legal Director

    Total calculated
    $200,624
    From this org
    $59,537
    From related orgs
    $120,877
    Other
    $20,210
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $59,537 + $120,877 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,669 + $13,541 related
    Filer's total
    $66,206 + $134,418 related

  • Sara Neel

    Managing Atttorney

    Total calculated
    $153,884
    From this org
    $44,421
    From related orgs
    $90,189
    Other
    $19,274
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $44,421 + $90,189 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,360 + $12,914 related
    Filer's total
    $50,781 + $103,103 related

  • Erica Tinsley

    Communications Director

    Total calculated
    $139,198
    From this org
    $39,641
    From related orgs
    $80,484
    Other
    $19,073
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

  • Sophia Mayott-Guerrero

    Advocacy Director-Past

    Total calculated
    $137,291
    From this org
    $40,773
    From related orgs
    $82,781
    Other
    $13,737
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

  • Annie Kurtz

    Senior Staff Attorney

    Total calculated
    $128,815
    From this org
    $37,987
    From related orgs
    $77,126
    Other
    $13,702
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

  • Anaya Robinson

    Policy Director

    Total calculated
    $119,810
    From this org
    $35,019
    From related orgs
    $71,099
    Other
    $13,692
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

  • Jen Samano

    Advocacy Director

    Total calculated
    $119,569
    From this org
    $35,015
    From related orgs
    $71,090
    Other
    $13,464
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

  • Emma McLean-Riggs

    Staff Attorney

    Total calculated
    $116,149
    From this org
    $33,993
    From related orgs
    $69,017
    Other
    $13,139
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

  • Adam Abdulhafid

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Beatriz Garcia Waddell

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Cindra Barnard

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Julie Reiskin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Lindsay Konkel

    Board Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Paul DeBell

    Board Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Shawn Davis

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Steve Chavez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

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, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — 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
    $2,212,079
    Expenses
    $1,723,419
    Contributions
    $2,116,580
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,414,296
    Expenses
    $2,150,957
    Contributions
    $1,332,448
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,005,676
    Expenses
    $1,732,803
    Contributions
    $1,954,473
    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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,209,228
    Expenses
    $1,291,137
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,180,767

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,361,306
    Expenses
    $1,733,016
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,360,367

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,283,550
    Expenses
    $1,188,500
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,556,325

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,012,085
    Expenses
    $942,753
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,679,670

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,349,133
    Expenses
    $463,059
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,508,229

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $665,396
    Expenses
    $292,956
    Assets (EOY)
    $544,093

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $247,901
    Expenses
    $233,247
    Assets (EOY)
    $148,564

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $282,412
    Expenses
    $303,340
    Assets (EOY)
    $133,247

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

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.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.