Other 98 Percent Action Inc
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What it says it does
The Mission of The Other 98% is simple but bold: To be a storytelling force that educates people and stirs them to fight for justice. We challenge the stranglehold that billionaires and corporations have on our government by creating our own educational tools and crafting our own narrative, one that sparks the sustained engagement and action we need to build a healthy democracy.
- Income
- $1.0 million
- Spending
- $900,574
- Employees
- 1
- Volunteers
- 0
- Highest pay
- $164,350, creative director
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Governance
This return does not answer enough of the governance questions to score.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (1)
- $802,232 spent. With 10M Followers, Other 98 is one of the loudest voices in the progressive social media world, reaching 30 to 40 million people every day: more engagement than the New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN. This is a level of penetration that only TV networks have. Case in point: we reach more folks on Facebook each day than are watching Fox News on their TVs. Other98 uses our massive platform to dominate the narrative around the most important political and social issues of the day, including the fights for economic justice, democracy, women's rights, racial equality, workers' rights, and climate justice.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated November 6, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Caution.
The IRS master file records contributions to this 501(c)(4) social welfare organization as not deductible.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since June 2004.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated November 4, 2026.
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