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Form 990-PFTax year 2024EIN 26-0344869

The Fund for Democratic Communities

A private foundation in Greensboro, NC. Its return for tax year 2024 reports $1.4 million paid in grants, listed in an attachment that is not in the e-file.

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Tax year 2024 (period ending Mar 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Accepts applications

The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.

Contact person
On file
Phone
On file
Mailing address
On file
Form and materials
On file
Deadlines
Having granted out almost all of its endowment, F4DC'S grantmaking is now quite restricted. Grant ap
Restrictions
Having granted out almost all its endowment, F4DC'S grantmaking is now quite restricted to a small group of grantees whom we have supported over the years and related groups working on projects that nurture grassroots economic democracy (see www.f4dc.org/programs/matching-grants).

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Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2024

    $1,436,357

    Grants listed
    In an attachment
    Assets, end of year
    $0

  • Tax year 2024

    $1,333,000

    Grants listed
    In an attachment
    Assets, end of year
    $787,135

  • Tax year 2023

    $781,000

    Grants listed
    In an attachment
    Assets, end of year
    $1,277,818

  • Tax year 2022

    $37,642

    Grants listed
    In an attachment
    Assets, end of year
    $217,611

  • Tax year 2021

    $519,724

    Grants listed
    In an attachment
    Assets, end of year
    $259,780

  • Tax year 2020

    $2,139,375

    Grants listed
    In an attachment
    Assets, end of year
    $299,253

  • Tax year 2019

    $818,777

    Grants listed
    In an attachment
    Assets, end of year
    $2,681,630

  • Tax year 2018

    $654,709

    Grants listed
    In an attachment
    Assets, end of year
    $5,356,688

Grants paid in 2024

Grants listed in an attachment (not in the e-file)

As listed on the return.

  1. This return lists its grants in an attachment that is not in the IRS e-file: $1.4 million in all.

Officers, directors and trustees

2 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Marnie ThompsonCO-MNGNG DIR Hours 5Pay $0
  • Ed WhitfieldC0-MNGNG DIR Hours 1Pay $0

The return

This is an amended return.

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