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OBSERVER RESEARCH FOUNDATION AMERICA

EIN 85-2694328 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$629,266
Expenses 2024
$578,295

Program services were 66.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q20
Classification
1000
Street
1100 17TH ST NW STE 501

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

SEE SCHEDULE O

  • SEE SCHEDULE O

    Expenses $386,068

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Dhruva Jaishankar

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $64,762
    From this org
    $57,697
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,065
    Hours/week
    40

  • Sharon Stirling

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $50,556
    From this org
    $45,556
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,000
    Hours/week
    40

  • Sunjoy Joshi

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Samir Saran

    CHAIR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mathew Oommen

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $629,266
    Expenses
    $578,295
    Contributions
    $629,266
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,301,517
    Expenses
    $2,830,663
    Contributions
    $4,301,517
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,552,866
    Expenses
    $2,986,426
    Contributions
    $2,552,846
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,243,134
    Expenses
    $2,253,336
    Contributions
    $2,243,094
    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
    $2,334,665
    Expenses
    $1,302,498
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,230,954

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

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 13 October 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.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.