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ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC

EIN 86-1778799 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$13,667,982
Expenses 2024
$10,998,810

Program services were 33.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
Q99
Classification
3000
Street
801 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW STE 930

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.

  • BETHANY SCULLY

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $231,117
    From this org
    $220,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,117
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $200,000
    Bonus
    $20,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $11,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $117
    Filer's total
    $231,117

  • JEFFREY KNIGHT

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • JOSHUA PITCOCK

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • MARC SHORT

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    25 + 1 related

  • PAUL TELLER

    EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $317,492
    From this org
    $293,065
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,427
    Hours/week
    65 + 4 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $278,065
    Bonus
    $15,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $17,400
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,027
    Filer's total
    $317,492

  • TIMOTHY CHAPMAN

    PRESIDENT (AS OF 8/19/24)

    Total calculated
    $363,697
    From this org
    $311,856
    From related orgs
    $45,480
    Other
    $6,361
    Hours/week
    65 + 4 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $186,856 + $45,480 related
    Bonus
    $125,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,200
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,161
    Filer's total
    $318,217 + $45,480 related

  • ED FEULNER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $95,000
    From this org
    $95,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ART POPE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VICTOR SMITH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE PENCE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GREG JACOB

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DOUGLAS CARLSON

    DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE/PROTOCOL

    Total calculated
    $181,657
    From this org
    $165,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,657
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $165,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,300
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,357
    Filer's total
    $181,657

  • JOHN SHELTON

    POLICY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $188,882
    From this org
    $171,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,632
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $171,250
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $10,275
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,357
    Filer's total
    $188,882

  • JOHN WHEAT

    GENERAL COUNSEL

    Total calculated
    $296,267
    From this org
    $280,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,267
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $280,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $16,150
    Nontaxable benefits
    $117
    Filer's total
    $296,267

  • ZACHARY BAUER

    DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $152,357
    From this org
    $145,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,357
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $145,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,357
    Filer's total
    $152,357

  • BRIAN SCHMITT

    MANAGER OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS

    Total calculated
    $157,957
    From this org
    $144,375
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,582
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $144,375
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,225
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,357
    Filer's total
    $157,957

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
    $13,667,982
    Expenses
    $10,998,810
    Contributions
    $9,126,985
    Grants paid
    $15,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $8,971,369
    Expenses
    $8,948,617
    Contributions
    $5,491,698
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $12,562,090
    Expenses
    $13,474,427
    Contributions
    $8,612,913
    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.

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.