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RHIZOME ACTION NETWORK INC

EIN 87-1985174 LEWES, DE

Revenue 2024
$1,035,438
Expenses 2024
$1,047,179

Program services were 84.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O20
Classification
2000
Street
16192 COASTAL HWY

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.

  • JACOB MERKLE

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $170,417
    From this org
    $170,417
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $170,417
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $170,417

  • ERIN BARRY

    DIRECTOR OF SYSTEMS DESIGN AND PARTNERSHIPS

    Total calculated
    $85,589
    From this org
    $85,589
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • JASMINE WHALEY

    DIRECTOR OF TRAINING AND BELONGING

    Total calculated
    $64,998
    From this org
    $64,998
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • MOLLY FASHOLA

    DIRECTOR OF PEOPLE AND LEGAL AFFAIRS

    Total calculated
    $23,395
    From this org
    $23,395
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • OLIVIA BERRY

    DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AND DATA STRATEGY

    Total calculated
    $7,413
    From this org
    $7,413
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • SHAWON JACKSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • STEPHANIE AYALA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SARAH LIPPEK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $1,035,438
    Expenses
    $1,047,179
    Contributions
    $1,033,226
    Grants paid
    $425
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,206,613
    Expenses
    $771,297
    Contributions
    $1,206,030
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $174,391
    Expenses
    $108,099
    Contributions
    $174,391
    Grants paid
    not reported

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

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.