- 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.
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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.
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Fred WertheimerFRED 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 UcciDOMINIC UCCI
BOARD CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 2 related
-
Donald J SimonDONALD J SIMON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Rebecca AvilaREBECCA AVILA
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 2 related
-
Geoffrey CowanGEOFFREY COWAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Rebecca WebberREBECCA WEBBER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Roger WittenROGER WITTEN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
J Adam SkaggsJ ADAM SKAGGS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Lisa FosterLISA FOSTER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Diane LavioletteDIANE 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
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$100,000
2025 PROGRAM GRANT
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$55,000
2022 PROGRAM GRANT
-
$50,000
2023 PROGRAM GRANT
Grants received
-
$50,000
2022 SEE SCHEDULE O
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$50,000
2023 SEE SCHEDULE O
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2024 GENERAL
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2023 GENERAL
-
$25,000
2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
$25,000
2022 ADVISED - FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT.
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2022 GENERAL
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
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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.