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COALITION FOR AMERICAN PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND LEADERSHIP

EIN 87-1717943 PORTLAND, ME

Revenue 2025
$323,364
Expenses 2025
$248,798

Program services were 89.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q20
Classification
2000
Street
400 CONGRESS ST STE 316

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 · 2025

Mission

THE PURPOSE OF THE COALITION FOR AMERICAN PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND LEADERSHIP IS TO STRENGTHEN AND EXPAND THE US DEPARTMENT OF STATE'S BRIDGEUSA PROGRAMS BY:(1) EDUCATING KEY CONSTITUENTS ON THE HISTORY AND POWER OF BRIDGEUSA PROGRAMS TO ADVANCE U.S. PUBLIC DIPLOMACY, NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMIC PROSPERITY, AND (2) CULTIVATING A GLOBAL NETWORK OF SUPPORTERS WHO PROMOTE BEST PRACTICES IN BRIDGEUSA PROGRAM DELIVERY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CAPDL WORKS TO STRENGTHEN AND EXPAND US DEPARTMENT OF STATE BRIDGEUSA PROGRAMS.

  • CAPDL SUPPORTED MEMBERS BY CONVENING 16 WEBINARS IN 2025 TO SHARE BEST PRACTICES AND TELL THE STORY OF BRIDGEUSA. IT HOSTED ONE IN-PERSON WORKSHOP IN MIAMI, FL TO CONVENE 20 MEMBERS OF THE AREA COMMUNITY WORKING ON OR INTERESTED IN BRIDGEUSA EXCHANGE PROGRAMS. CAPDL'S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SPOKE AT 4 CONFERENCES TO EDUCATE KEY STAKEHOLDERS. CAPDL CONVENED THREE MEMBER WORKING GROUPS TO GENERATE BEST PRACTICES FOR THE INTERN, TRAINEE, SUMMER WORK TRAVEL, AND HIGH SCHOOL CATEGORIES. CAPDL ALSO RELEASED A RESEARCH PAPER LOOKING AT HOW BRIDGEUSA PROGRAMS DISTINCTLY CONTRIBUTE TO US PUBLIC DIPLOMACY, ECONOMIC PROSPERITY, AND NATIONAL SECURITY, CREATED HANDOUTS TO EXPLAIN THE POWER OF BRIDGEUSA TO PROSPECTIVE PARTICIPANTS AND HOSTS, AND DELIVERED A WEEKLY MEMBER EMAIL GROUNDED IN EDUCATION, BEST PRACTICES SHARING, AND STORYTELLING.

    Expenses $223,790

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • CARYE DUFFIN

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ASENITH DIXON

    SECRETARY (THRU JANUARY)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JON BASELICE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DENISE BECKSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RUSS HEDGE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMES PELLOW

    BOARD MEMBER (THRU JANUARY)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MODESTO REYES

    BOARD MEMBER (AS OF AUGUST)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RICK RUTH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARINA SEET

    BOARD MEMBER (AS OF AUGUST)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BASTIAN WEINBERGER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BETTINA WIEDMANN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CARMEN IEZZI MEZZERA

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (EX OFFICIO)

    Total calculated
    $217,690
    From this org
    $175,346
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,344
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $175,346
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,012
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,332
    Filer's total
    $217,690

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $323,364
    Expenses
    $248,798
    Contributions
    $323,364
    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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2024

Tax period
1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024
Principal officer
Carmen Iezzi Mezzera
Mailing address
600 Southborough Drive 104South Portland ME 04106
Website
www.americanpublicdiplomacy.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

  • CIEE INC

    $280,117

    2024 To provide financial support during initial startup period to expand awareness and opportunities for international cultural exchange programs in the United States

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.