TAX FOUNDATION

Programs

1. Marketing and communication - the foundation's marketing and communications team makes tax policy engaging and accessible to taxpayers, legislators, and the media through innovative, multi-channel campaigns. The foundation's team delivers high-quality content to the right people, at the right time, in a format that promotes deeper understanding using tools like social media, digital advertising, interactive web experiences, and email. In 2025, the foundation earned 68,624 media citations in the world's top news outlets, including the wall street journal, the washington post, the new york times, nbc news, fox news, and npr; its experts conducted 94 radio and tv interviews and placed 47 op-eds; taxfoundation.org was visited 24 million times; its social media audience grew 127 percent to over 145,000 total followers; its podcast listenership grew by 140 percent, resulting in over 462,000 listens; and its email newsletter grew 9 percent to over 83,200 subscribers.

   $1,803,078 spent
   28% of program spending

2. Federal tax policy - this program promotes sound tax policy in washington d.c. The foundation provides objective data and analysis on tax policy using several tools, including modeling of economic and budgetary effects, research, writing, capitol hill briefings, and congressional testimony. The foundation has established itself as the go-to resource on federal tax issues for policymakers. In 2025, the staff conducted more than 96 capitol hill meetings, briefings, and presentations to various public audiences, were cited by members of congress 53 times, and produced dozens of reports and blog posts on a variety of issues that received more than 55,700 citations in leading media outlets.

   $1,760,457 spent
   27% of program spending

3. Global tax policy - this program was launched to promote pro-growth tax policies throughout the world with a primary focus on us cross border policies and those in europe. The global program produces in-depth studies of economic data and uses a variety of measures, such as the international tax competitiveness index, to compare tax systems. The foundation's experts have provided briefings in countries throughout europe and are relied upon by media, policy makers, and other policy groups to provide analysis of tax proposals throughout the world. In 2025, the foundation's experts were cited in 84 countries, testified before congresses and parliaments alike, and received nearly 18,000 media citations.

   $1,529,997 spentof which $532,685 as grants
   24% of program spending

4. State tax policy - this program promotes state tax reform with comprehensive annual reports, research, policy analysis, and in-depth state-specific studies. In 2025, the foundation testified or presented to officialsvirtually and in-personin 35 states, met with in state groups or audiences in all 50 states and the district of columbia, and its flagship state tax competitiveness index (stci) was viewed nearly 471,000 times (a 172 percent increase over 2024). The foundation is often looked to by legislators, taxpayers, and the media (with 18,890 media citations in 2025) to recommend tax reform options or provide analysis of tax plans. The foundation's analysis, and studies such as the stci, inform the tax reform debate across the country and have been crucial to major tax changes in many states, and foundation experts have been a vital resource to policy makers and journalist as states navigate an increasingly mobile economy characterized by a greater focus on tax competitiveness.

   $1,170,777 spent
   18% of program spending

5. Tax education - taxedu is designed as a simplified resource to advance tax policy education, discussion, and understanding in classrooms, living rooms, and government chambers. Taxedu gives teachers the tools to make students better citizens, taxpayers a vocabulary to see through the rhetoric, lawmakers crash courses to write smarter laws, and videos for anyone who wants to boost their tax knowledge on the go. In 2025, taxedu resources reached more than 18,000 users, our program leaders had seven speaking opportunities, and our explainer videos exceeded 1.5 million views. Education is the heartbeat of Tax Foundation's mission, and taxedu is filling a gap that has long existed in classrooms, living rooms, and even online discourse. Tax illiteracy is a serious problem. Taxedu is proving it's one we can solve.

   $194,871 spent
   3% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,459,180.