ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE

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2025 · Form 990 · revenue $17.4M · expenses $14.2M · assets $21.3M

EIN

52-1368964

Address

1225 EYE STREET NW 600, WASHINGTON, DC 20005-5960

Website

WWW.EPI.ORG

NTEE code

V22 Economics (Social Science) published (IRS Business Master File, as V22F)

Exempt type

501(c)(3): charitable, religious, educational, scientific or literary (corporation)

Ruling date

September 1985 (when the IRS recognized its exemption)

IRS status

Exempt (unconditional) (IRS Business Master File) IRS data ↗

Tax-deductible donations

Yes: listed in IRS Publication 78 (public charity) Pub 78 ↗

Foundation status

Public charity supported by the public (170(b)(1)(a)(vi))

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Mission

EPI USES THE TOOLS OF ECONOMICS TO BRING THE INTERESTS OF LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME WORKERS INTO ECONOMIC POLICY DISCUSSIONS. EPI'S RIGOROUS RESEARCH AND TRANSFORMATIVE IDEAS FORTIFY WORKER ORGANIZING, BUILD A SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF HOW POWER AND POLICY SHAPE ECONOMIC OUTCOMES, AND HELP DRIVE PROGRESSIVE POLICY CHANGE AT EVERY LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT. WE PARTNER WITH NATIONAL AND STATE GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS, ACADEMICS, AND LABOR UNIONS TO ADVANCE OUR MISSION.

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).

People paid by the organization

30 people paid across every filing: current people first, then by total pay from this organization. Organizations counts every nonprofit each person appears on.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

74 people listed on the returns with $0 (or no amount) in every compensation column: current people first. Hours are as filed on the latest return each person appears on.

People by year

Highest-paid independent contractors

Paid as a vendor by

Other organizations that listed this one among their highest-paid independent contractors. Contractor lists give no EIN, so these are matched on name and address; check the filing.

Who the money went to

Grants this organization reported paying: Schedule I Part II of the Form 990, or the grants-paid list on the 990-PF. Open a year for every recipient. Recipients link to their own page when the grant names an EIN we have (990-PF grants list no EIN, so those link only on an exact, unique name and state). Grants to individuals are counted; their names are not shown.

Negative amounts are returned or refunded grants; they are listed last and left out of the totals of grants paid.

Who gave

Contributor names are not public for this form type.

Public charities filing Form 990 or 990-EZ report large donors on Schedule B, but the IRS withholds their names and addresses from public copies. Private foundations (990-PF) are different: their contributors are public.

Finances

Newest first. Each filing: its name on one row, its figures on the row beneath. Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.

Connected to

Organizations that list some of the same people on their returns (officers, directors, key employees on this organization’s latest return), and related organizations it lists on Schedule R.

• EPI ACTION Washington, DC · 11 people in common (Celine Mcnicholas, Gary Bass, Heidi Shierholz) · related organization (Schedule R)
• LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC Washington, DC · 7 people in common (April Verrett, Becky Pringle, Jocelyn Frye)
• ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS Washington, DC · 5 people in common (Brian Bryant, Lee Saunders, Lori Pelletier)
• UNION VETERANS COUNCIL Washington, DC · 4 people in common (Brian Bryant, Lee Saunders, Randi Weingarten)
• NATIONAL PUBLIC PENSION COALITION Washington, DC · 3 people in common (Becky Pringle, Liz Shuler, Randi Weingarten)
• UAW RETIREE MEDICAL BENEFITS TR Detroit, MI · 2 people in common (Shawn Fain, Teresa Ghilarducci)
• AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS Washington, DC · 2 people in common (Lee Saunders, Randi Weingarten)
• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE Baltimore, MD · 2 people in common (Claude Cummings, Randi Weingarten)
• STRATEGIC ORGANIZING CENTER Washington, DC · 2 people in common (April Verrett, Claude Cummings)
• INSTITUTE ON TAXATION AND ECONOMIC POLICY Washington, DC · 2 people in common (Naomi Walker, Robert Kuttner)
• COALITION OF KAISER PERMANENTE UNIONS Washington, DC · 2 people in common (Lee Saunders, Randi Weingarten)
• JOBS WITH JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND Washington, DC · 2 people in common (Lee Saunders, Naomi Walker)
• UNION SPORTSMENS ALLIANCE Spring Hill, TN · 2 people in common (Brian Bryant, Shawn Fain)
• AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS Washington, DC · 2 people in common (Lee Saunders, Shawn Fain)
• CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER Washington, DC · 2 people in common (Heidi Shierholz, Liz Shuler)
• BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE INC Minneapolis, MN · 2 people in common (Randi Weingarten, Shawn Fain)
• AMERICANS UNITED FOR CHANGE Washington, DC · 2 people in common (Lee Saunders, Randi Weingarten)
• AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS Albany, NY · 1 person in common (Randi Weingarten)
• RECONNECTING MCDOWELL INC Washington, DC · 1 person in common (Randi Weingarten)
• AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORG Washington, DC · 1 person in common (Brian Bryant)

Funders of this organization

102 grantors reported grants to this organization, $76,337,005 in all, tax years 2009 to 2024; the 25 largest shown (all 102). Exact: the grantor wrote this organization's EIN. Fuzzy: the grantor wrote only a name (foundations' 990-PF has no EIN field), matched to the same or a near-identical name in the same state; the name as filed is shown. From the latest return for each grantor and year, so amended returns aren't counted twice. CSV