DEMOCRACY MATTERS

2024 · Form 990 · revenue $21.0M · expenses $50.9M · assets $926K

EIN

99-2900699

Address

996 MAINE AVE SW PMB 216, WASHINGTON, DC 20024-3440

NTEE code

R01

Exempt type

501(c)(4): social welfare (corporation)

Ruling date

January 2026 (when the IRS recognized its exemption)

IRS status

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

Tax-deductible donations

No

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Mission

DEMOCRACY MATTERS WAS FORMED TO CONNECT AND BUILD A COMMUNITY OF PRO-DEMOCRACY DONORS.

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).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

None of the 3 people listed on these returns reported compensation from the organization. They are listed below.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

3 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

No independent contractors reported.

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 Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.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.

• AB FOUNDATION Washington, DC · 2 people in common (Bradley Beychok, Pilar Martinez)
• AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION Washington, DC · 2 people in common (Bradley Beychok, Pilar Martinez)
• AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA Washington, DC · 2 people in common (Bradley Beychok, Pilar Martinez)
• DEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATION Washington, DC · 2 people in common (Bradley Beychok, Pilar Martinez)
• MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA Washington, DC · 2 people in common (Bradley Beychok, Pilar Martinez)
• MEDIA MATTERS ACTION NETWORK Washington, DC · 2 people in common (Bradley Beychok, Pilar Martinez)
• AMERICAN BRIDGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION Washington, DC · 1 person in common (Pilar Martinez)
• THE FRANKLIN FORUM Washington, DC · 1 person in common (Pilar Martinez)

Funders of this organization

3 grantors reported grants to this organization, $42,830,000 in all, tax years 2024 to 2024. 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

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Who funds organizations like this

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Where the money went

Every expense line on each return, biggest first: Form 990 Part IX (with its program, management and fundraising columns), 990-EZ Part I, or 990-PF Part I. Event marks lines the organization itself describes as events. “Events” in each summary adds those lines, conferences and meetings, and the direct costs of fundraising events. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.

State business registration

• Democracy Matters DC, Domestic Nonprofit Corporation, Active - In Good Standing, formed 2024-05-06

The same business name in the same state, from the state’s official registry data.