The Lacuna Project

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Exhibit 920

Dataset: IRS Form 990 e-file XML, 26 organizations, tax years 2015-2024

Exhibit 920 ยท Dataset

Dataset: IRS Form 990 e-file XML, 26 organizations, tax years 2015-2024

171 returns extracted by object ID from IRS public zips (index_YYYY.csv); fields: total revenue, contributions, total expenses, Schedule C political expenditures (PoliticalExpendituresAmt), Schedule I grants. Table saved in research/politics/money-without-names.990-run.csv (sha256 9b2af6c8d504773e53d7ce4f3d6e576ccf8d90eacb5a89932c003c197067912c).

Source
Lacuna derivation from IRS TEOS XML
Date
run 10 November 2026
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/990/xml/2025/
Accessed
2026-11-10
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit
Note
One return per organization per tax period, highest object id kept. The url is the IRS public XML directory.

Cited by

Finding POL-5.6
Primary record Super PACs aligned with each party received itemized transfers from a paired 501(c)(4). In 2024 One Nation gave $36 million to Senate Leadership Fund and American Action Network gave $43 million to Congressional Leadership Fund; Majority Forward gave $82 million to Senate Majority PAC, House Majority Forward gave $47 million to House Majority PAC, and Future Forward USA Action gave $266 million to Future Forward PAC, 48 percent of that super PAC's receipts.
Finding POL-5.7
Primary record In 69 Form 990 filings by twelve 501(c)(4) organizations, six on each side, reported Schedule C political expenditures never exceeded 47.5 percent of total expenses. The highest ratios are Majority Forward (47.5 percent, period ending May 2019), The Concord Fund (46.9 percent, period ending June 2025) and Future Forward USA Action (45.1 percent, period ending December 2024).
Finding POL-5.8
Primary record Organizations on both sides pass money to political groups through intermediaries that name no donors in public filings. Over tax periods ending 2020 to 2025, Schedule I grants by the right-side Marble Freedom Trust were $1,024 million and by DonorsTrust $1,241 million, and the left-side Tides Foundation $2,281 million, New Venture Fund $1,881 million, Sixteen Thirty Fund $924 million and Hopewell Fund $425 million; Marble Freedom Trust reported $1,603,791,362 in contributions for the year ended April 2021 and named no donor.