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APPLESEED FOUNDATION INC

EIN 52-1835698 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$1,053,955
Expenses 2024
$886,525

Program services were 83.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T50Z
Classification
1000
Street
PMB 97263

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

THE APPLESEED FOUNDATION SUPPORTS THE APPLESEED NETWORK, A COLLABORATION OF 20 NONPROFIT JUSTICE CENTERS ACROSS THE US AND MEXICO WORKING TOGETHER TO REDUCE POVERTY, COMBAT DISCRIMINATION, AND INVIGORATE DEMOCRACY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

APPLESEED IS THE FOUNDER OF, AND THE NATIONAL OFFICE FOR, A NON-PROFIT NETWORK OF 20 CENTERS ACROSS THE U.S. AND MEXICO. APPLESEED IS DEDICATED TO ADVANCING JUSTICE AND OPPORTUNITIES THAT HELP LOW-INCOME PEOPLE AND WORKING FAMILIES BUILD BETTER LIVES. APPLESEED EMPLOYS LITIGATION, POLICY ADVOCACY, AND GRASS ROOTS ORGANIZING, AND MAKES A DIFFERENCE BY STAYING CLOSE TO THEIRCOMMUNITIES, WINNING VICTORIES IN HARD POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTS, AND BRINGING THE POWER AND EXPERTISE OF A NATIONAL NETWORK TO BEAR ON CROSS-CUTTING SOCIAL ISSUES.

  • APPLESEED NETWORK COLLABORATION -- THE APPLESEED FOUNDATION FACILITATES COLLABORATIVE ADVOCACY AMONG THE 20 JUSTICE CENTERS IN THE APPLESEED NETWORK. THESE COLLABORATIONS INCLUDE MULTICENTER PROJECTS RELATED TO ECONOMIC JUSTICE, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, EDUCATION AND YOUTH, IMMIGRATION, AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE. ISSUES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE ARE BOTH WIDESPREAD ACROSS JURISDICTIONS AND DEEPLY ROOTED IN THEIR SPECIFIC COMMUNITY CONTEXT, AND APPLESEED'S STRUCTURE INDEPENDENT JUSTICE CENTERS WORKING COLLABORATIVELY AS A NETWORK ALLOWS APPLESEED TO WORK ON THESE ISSUES BOTH BROADLY AND DEEPLY.

    Expenses $460,631 · Grants $258,000

  • COLLECTIVE CAPACITY BUILDING -- THE APPLESEED FOUNDATION DEEPENS THE APPLESEED NETWORK'S IMPACT BY HELPING BUILD COMMUNITIES OF LEARNING AND PRACTICE AMONG THE 20 APPLESEED JUSTICE CENTERS. THROUGH FREQUENT WORKSHOPS, TRAININGS, STAFF COHORTS, AND STUDY GROUPS, THE APPLESEED FOUNDATION BRINGS APPLESEED CENTERS TOGETHER TO SHARE LESSONS LEARNED, TROUBLESHOOT CHALLENGES, DEVELOP NEW AND INNOVATIVE APPROACHES, AND FOSTER THE SENSE OF COMMUNITY NECESSARY TO SUSTAIN SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS.

    Expenses $169,666 · Grants $10,914

  • APPLESEED NEW JUSTICE -- THE APPLESEED FOUNDATION SOWS THE SEEDS OF JUSTICE BY LAUNCHING NEW APPLESEED JUSTICE CENTERS. WHEN ESTABLISHING A NEW APPLESEED CENTER, THE APPLESEED FOUNDATION WORKS CLOSELY WITH LOCAL COMMUNITY MEMBERS, ADVOCATES, AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS TO IDENTIFY THE MOST PRESSING ISSUES IN THE JURISDICTION, GAPS IN EXISTING ADVOCACY INFRASTRUCTURE, AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLABORATION. TWO NEWEST CENTERS ARE CONNECTICUT APPLESEED (RELAUNCHED IN 2024) AND WISCONSIN APPLESEED (LAUNCHED IN 2025).

    Expenses $109,578 · Grants $75,500

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.

  • Benet Magnuson Arthur Monroe

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $134,691
    From this org
    $127,220
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,471
    Hours/week
    40

  • Eric Koenig

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • Daniel Dominguez Co-Chair Elect

    UNTIL NOV. 2024, THEN CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • Tom McCoy Imm Past Co-Chair

    UNTIL NOV. 2024, THEN MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Rory Leraris Co-Chair Until

    NOV. 2024, THEN IMM. PAST CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joe Hoang

    SECRETARY UNTIL NOVEMBER 2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nicholas Deluca Member Treas

    AS OF JULY 24, SEC./TREAS. AS OF NOV. 2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sharie Brown Member Until

    NOV. 2024, THEN CO-CHAIR ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lisa Dewey

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gail Erickson

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Markus Green

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Richard Jerome

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Curtis Lu

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Ralph Nader

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ralph Petersberger

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jon Walcoff

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Phil Zeidman

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Beverly Allen

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Bob Bachner

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mary Benton

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Katie Joseph

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • John Shutkin

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • David Schrodt

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • James Shadd III

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Keith Benes

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

The first 25 listed. 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
    $1,053,955
    Expenses
    $886,525
    Contributions
    $1,034,641
    Grants paid
    $344,414
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $805,974
    Expenses
    $810,992
    Contributions
    $786,800
    Grants paid
    $312,682
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $696,694
    Expenses
    $622,852
    Contributions
    $670,763
    Grants paid
    $198,135

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
    $782,681
    Expenses
    $548,410
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,531,911

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $387,952
    Expenses
    $241,684
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,588,032

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,120,017
    Expenses
    $1,074,765
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,812,496

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $947,047
    Expenses
    $1,080,706
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,792,506

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,143,615
    Expenses
    $1,514,021
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,928,064

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,520,382
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,214,555

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,633,807
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,249,372

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

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

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Grants received

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 November 2019, reinstated 15 November 2019.

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.