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CENTER FOR POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY

EIN 20-0385691 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$1,081,951
Expenses 2024
$1,376,430

Program services were 47.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W01
Classification
2000
Street
2001 L ST NW STE 500

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).

Other organizations at this address

35 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 500). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The Center's mission is to bring transparency and accountability to corporate political spending. The Center sees this as ending the pervasive secrecy that hides corporate political activity from shareholders and the public.

Activities or mission (Part I)

See Part III, Line 1.

  • Educated the public about corporate political spending and worked with institutional investors to submit proposals requiring notification to shareholders of political contribution policies and provide informational disclosure.

    Expenses $655,526

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • John Cooper Jr

    Chair of the Board

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Stephen Charles

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • William Lauffer

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Allison Lee

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Morris Pearl

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rona Peligal

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sam Fulwood III

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paul Roth

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Daniel Simon

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lawrence Ziclin

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joel Poznasky

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bruce Freed

    President

    Total calculated
    $198,342
    From this org
    $150,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $48,342
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $150,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $48,342
    Filer's total
    $198,342

  • Daniel Carroll

    VP for Programs

    Total calculated
    $130,878
    From this org
    $109,267
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,611
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $1,081,951
    Expenses
    $1,376,430
    Contributions
    $1,072,861
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $863,110
    Expenses
    $1,230,875
    Contributions
    $863,085
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,132,071
    Expenses
    $1,135,272
    Contributions
    $1,131,975
    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
    $1,072,795
    Expenses
    $979,622
    Assets (EOY)
    $210,350

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $941,842
    Expenses
    $935,395
    Assets (EOY)
    $43,471

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $779,488
    Expenses
    $777,268
    Assets (EOY)
    $45,713

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $939,670
    Expenses
    $837,978
    Assets (EOY)
    $50,392

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,251,314
    Expenses
    $740,686
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,306

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $629,750
    Expenses
    $656,475
    Assets (EOY)
    $90,003

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $788,182
    Expenses
    $662,194
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,812

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.