Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
WINNING THE ISSUES
WINNING THE ISSUES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $600,000 to it, the largest being American Policy Coalition ($600,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $300k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $600k
- Net assets
- $283k
What Winning the Issues does
Mission
The mission of Winning the Issues is to promote social welfare by educating decision makers on what issues are most important to Americans, what messages they are hearing on those issues, and what communications are most effective.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mission of Winning the Issues is to promote social welfare by educating decision makers on the issues that are most important to Americans, the messages they are hearing on those issues, and the communications that are most effective. In 2025, the organization conducted surveys of American citizens on important issues and made the research publicly available online. Issues explored in depth during 2025 included the economy and inflation, taxes, education, and health care. Findings were made available through educational tools such as videos and reports.
$185,000 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $185,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $161k to $397k (+146%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of WINNING THE ISSUES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $300k.
From the IRS filings of WINNING THE ISSUES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
WINNING THE ISSUES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
WINNING THE ISSUES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 979 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 979 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WINNING THE ISSUES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WINNING THE ISSUES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WINNING THE ISSUES?
- WINNING THE ISSUES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $600,000 to it, the largest being American Policy Coalition ($600,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WINNING THE ISSUES have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $600,000 in grants to WINNING THE ISSUES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WINNING THE ISSUES?
- American Policy Coalition is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WINNING THE ISSUES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing