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PROJECT FOR PRIVACY AND SURVEILL- ANCE ACCOUNTABILITY INC

EIN 84-2387106 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$2,540,113
Expenses 2024
$2,534,968

Program services were 97.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Street
300 NEW JERSEY AVE NW SUITE 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 · 2024

Mission

PPSA IS A NONPARTISAN GROUP OF U.S. CITIZENS WHO ADVOCATE FOR GREATER PROTECTION OF OUR PRIVACY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES IN GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMS. PPSA ADVOCATES IN THE PUBLIC ARENA AND BEFORE CONGRESS FOR GUIDELINES AND AUDITS TO HOLD THESE SECRET PROGRAMS ACCOUNTABLE TO CONSTITUTIONAL AND STATUTORY PROTECTIONS.

  • FOIA REQUESTS: PPSA USES LITIGATION UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA) TO UNCOVER THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE, INCLUDING THE UNMASKING OF AMERICANS WHOSE COMMUNICATIONS ARE CAUGHT IN SURVEILLED FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

    Expenses $843,364

  • LOBBYING: PPSA ADVOCATES IN THE PUBLIC ARENA AND BEFORE CONGRESS FOR GUIDELINES AND AUDITS TO HOLD THESE SECRET PROGRAMS ACCOUNTABLE TO CONSTITUTIONAL AND STATUTORY PROTECTIONS.

    Expenses $642,401

  • EDUCATION: PPSA SEEKS TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ON PRIVACY ISSUES.

    Expenses $990,063 · Grants $7,500

  • TRAVEL AND ASSISTANCE TO AFFILIATE

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • DONALD IRVINE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $2,500
    From this org
    $2,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • MARK DAVIS

    DIRECTOR OF

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • GENE SCHAERR

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • ERIK JAFFE

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • SARAH NORTON

    TREASURER/SE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,540,113
    Expenses
    $2,534,968
    Contributions
    $2,540,113
    Grants paid
    $7,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,057,597
    Expenses
    $2,078,896
    Contributions
    $2,057,597
    Grants paid
    $50,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,985,023
    Expenses
    $1,960,231
    Contributions
    $1,985,023
    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
    $1,553,311
    Expenses
    $1,555,895
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,141

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,261,103
    Expenses
    $2,259,478
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,725

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,070,493
    Expenses
    $1,070,493
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.