Biography
Evan Weber is a co-founder of the Sunrise Movement.
The Organization
Sunrise operates through two entities registered in Washington, DC: the Sunrise Movement, a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization, and the Sunrise Movement Education Fund, a 501(c)(3).
The (c)(4)‘s first year with extracted data is 2017, on revenue of 31,210 of expenses. The Education Fund’s revenue peaked at 5.1 million in 2022 and 9 million and $7 million, meaning it spent well beyond its income in both years.
These are two separately filed entities, and the (c)(4)‘s only extracted filing is from 2017, so the figures above do not establish a single continuous trajectory for one organization. The filings do not state what caused the Education Fund’s revenue decline after 2021.
Relevance to This Site
Sunrise is a youth organization built through online recruitment and distributed local groups rather than through an existing institution, and the filings above let its scale be stated rather than estimated.
What Is Not Established Here
This page was previously a stub. Weber’s own role, his dates with the organization, and his other work are not stated, because nothing sourced in this pass documents them: the IRS records establish the organization’s existence, form, location and finances, not the identity or tenure of its founders. His co-founding is retained from the previous version and is not corroborated by anything cited here.
Sources
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Internal Revenue Service, via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer. Sunrise Movement — IRS Form 990 filings (EIN 82-1232167). The advocacy entity: a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization registered in Washington, DC. Its only filing with extracted data is for tax year 2017 — total revenue $77,791 against expenses $31,210 — which is the first-party record of the organization beginning to operate in 2017 and of how small it was at the start.
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Internal Revenue Service, via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer. Sunrise Movement Education Fund — IRS Form 990 filings (EIN 46-4773036). The affiliated 501(c)(3), also in Washington, DC, with an IRS ruling date of August 2014. Total revenue $11,677,189 (2020), $14,675,675 (2021), $5,095,621 (2022) and $4,979,296 (2023), against expenses of $6,740,902, $8,395,432, $8,949,760 and $6,996,813 — a peak in 2021 followed by revenue falling to roughly a third of it while spending stayed high.