Tea Party Patriots

Tea Party Patriots is an organizing group formed during the Tea Party protests of 2009. Two 501(c)(4) entities appear in IRS records at the same Woodstock, Georgia address: Tea Party Patriots Inc (EIN 27-0470227, ruling March 2014) and Tea Party Patriots Action (EIN 82-2189965). The live site presents the organization as Tea Party Patriots Action.

Stated mission

The organization states that “Tea Party Patriots Action’s mission is to equip Americans with the resources and training they need to be engaged citizens and effective activists,” and that its vision “is for a nation where individual liberty is cherished and maximized, where the Constitution is revered and upheld, and where Americans are free to pursue their American Dream.”

Scale

The financial record is modest relative to the organization’s public profile. The most recent Form 990 for Tea Party Patriots Inc with parsed financial data is for the 2019 tax year, showing revenue of $746,469 and total assets of$54,835.

Relevance to digital political discourse

Tea Party Patriots was one of the national bodies that formed around the decentralised 2009 protests, and its stated function — supplying “resources and training” to activists rather than directing them — describes the coordinating role such organizations played relative to locally organised groups.