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DEMOCRACY 21 EDUCATION FUND

EIN 52-1956824 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2025
$300,527
Expenses 2025
$563,326

Program services were 87.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W20
Classification
2000
Street
1629 K ST NW STE 300

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

EDUCATION, RESEARCH, AND LITIGATION TO STRENGTHEN AND PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY AND TO PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM AND OUR ELECTIONS PROCESS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CONCERNING THE RENEWAL AND REFORM OF OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM AND SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT.

  • EDUCATION, RESEARCH, AND LITIGATION TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY REFORMS, INCLUDING CAMPAIGN FINANCE, VOTING RIGHTS, AND REDISTRICTING REFORMS, AND TO PROMOTE PROTECTIONS FOR THE RULE OF LAW AND THE INTEGRITY OF OUR ELECTIONS.

    Expenses $492,730 · Grants $100,000 · Revenue $10,200

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • Fred Wertheimer

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $131,141
    From this org
    $96,000
    From related orgs
    $4,000
    Other
    $31,141
    Hours/week
    48 + 2 related
  • Dominic Ucci

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related
  • Donald J Simon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Rebecca Avila

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related
  • Geoffrey Cowan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Rebecca Webber

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Roger Witten

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • J Adam Skaggs

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Lisa Foster

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Diane Laviolette

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $300,527
    Expenses
    $563,326
    Contributions
    $281,468
    Grants paid
    $100,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,258,355
    Expenses
    $1,627,403
    Contributions
    $1,141,253
    Grants paid
    $50,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,600,195
    Expenses
    $1,074,011
    Contributions
    $1,596,884
    Grants paid
    $105,000

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
    $784,044
    Expenses
    $708,321
    Assets (EOY)
    $606,411
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $381,880
    Expenses
    $551,071
    Assets (EOY)
    $530,688
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $474,631
    Expenses
    $518,453
    Assets (EOY)
    $699,879
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $458,502
    Expenses
    $486,828
    Assets (EOY)
    $743,701
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $580,874
    Expenses
    $464,064
    Assets (EOY)
    $772,027
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $597,723
    Expenses
    $452,944
    Assets (EOY)
    $655,217
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $571,001
    Expenses
    $465,868
    Assets (EOY)
    $510,438
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $442,298
    Expenses
    $411,932
    Assets (EOY)
    $405,305
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $436,601
    Expenses
    $434,092
    Assets (EOY)
    $374,939
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $456,525
    Assets (EOY)
    $372,430

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 2025 return

  • DEMOCRACY 21

    501(C)(4) · DIRECT LOBBYING ACTIVITIES TO ASSIST DEMOCRACY 21 EDUCATION FUND'S MISSION · DC

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.