EDUCATION FOR PEACE IN IRAQ CENTER

Financials

From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.

Officers, directors and key employees

As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025, highest compensation first.

Address and contacts

Address (IRS master file)

1140 3RD STREET NE 2ND FLOOR, WASHINGTON, DC 20002-6274

In care of

% ERIK GUSTAFSON

Principal officer (990 for 2025)

Erik Gustafson, 1140 3rd Street NE 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20002

Signed the 990

ERIK GUSTAFSON, Executive Director

Phone

(202) 670-9093

Website

www.epic-usa.org

Return prepared by

Mullins PC

Mission

To act as a rights-based development organization focused on climate and the environment, good governance, and human security in Iraq through groundbreaking field work, research, policy analysis, and advocacy.

Program accomplishments

• RESEARCH & EDUCATION PROGRAM: Producing Independent Iraq Analysis and Public Education on Governance, Climate, and Human Security In 2025, EPIC strengthened its role as a trusted source of independent research and public education on Iraqs political, security, humanitarian, governance, and environmental challenges. Through its flagship publication, the Iraq Security and Humanitarian Monitor (ISHM), EPIC continued providing timely weekly analysis grounded in Iraqi Arabic and Kurdish sources for policymakers, journalists, researchers, humanitarian actors, and the public. EPIC also expanded its research and public education on Iraqs climate and environmental crises. We published Making Every Drop Count, a field-based report examining Iraqs worsening water crisis and the potential of drip irrigation to help farmers conserve water, improve yields, and adapt to drought. Based on interviews and site visits with farmers, officials, researchers, environmental advocates, and journalists, the report provided practical recommendations for national water conservation and agricultural resilience. EPIC also published a policy paper on wastewater management reform, reframing Iraqs clean water crisis as not only a climate challenge but also a solvable failure of governance, infrastructure, and enforcement. In the area of governance and democratic reform, EPIC published Six Years After Tishreen, a major analysis of Iraqs reform movement six years after the start of the 2019 Tishreen (October) protests and ahead of the 2025 parliamentary elections. The report was the product of months of research, including half a dozen field interviews. EPIC also produced election analysis and video briefings explaining the results of Iraqs 2025 elections, the growing political role of armed factions, and the implications for reform, accountability, and civic space. EPIC further expanded public education through our YouTube channel, producing 23 Iraq-focused videos in 2025 and relaunching the Iraq Matters podcast with an episode featuring field researcher Winthrop Rodgers on Iraqs water crisis and the question of whether drip irrigation can help save agriculture in the cradle of civilization. EPIC also responded rapidly to the U.S. foreign assistance freeze by publishing a public Q&A resource and releasing an in-depth Foreign Aid: Fact & Fiction video to help supporters and policymakers understand what was at stake for Iraq and other vulnerable communities around the world. Together, these research and education activities helped translate complex developments into accessible analysis, equipping audiences in Iraq, the United States, Europe, and beyond with credible information needed to support peace, accountable governance, climate resilience, and human security.
  Expenses $112,109
• FIELD-BASED PROJECTS: Supporting Iraqi-Led Environmental Action, Public Health Monitoring, and Youth Healing In 2025, EPIC advanced locally led field work in Iraq through partnerships with trusted Iraqi civil society organizations addressing urgent environmental, public health, and humanitarian needs. EPICs field-based work focused on practical, evidence-based initiatives that helped Iraqi partners document harms, raise public awareness, engage officials, and offer solutions. With the Iraq Health Access Organization (IHAO) in Baghdad, EPIC helped restore public access to real-time air quality information after the citys only public monitor went offline. EPIC assisted IHAO in procuring and installing an open-source air quality monitor in central Baghdad and launching the public website Baghdadi Breeze, giving residents, researchers, advocates, and officials renewed access to live pollution data in a city of nearly 9 million people. IHAO also began using the project to engage international organizations and seek cooperation with Iraqi environmental authorities. With Waterkeepers Iraq in Sulaymaniyah, EPIC supported work documenting Iraqs water crisis and advancing locally grounded river protection. Waterkeepers Iraq completed five field trips to photograph the rapid decline of rivers near Sulaymaniyah, pairing 24 archival images with 24 current images to create the Vanishing Rivers exhibition. The exhibition opened at the Culture Factory, expanded to a second venue at Paia Studio, distributed more than 100 photobooks, and engaged students, academics, environmental advocates, officials, diplomats, and the public. Waterkeepers Iraq also helped document toxic oil spills, contributing to public pressure and official action, while EPIC supported practical water solutions including a mobile wastewater treatment demonstration unit and advocacy for expanded wastewater treatment. With Humat Dijlah in Nasiriyah, EPIC supported the Environmental Duties campaign on river pollution. Humat Dijlah published an evidence-based policy paper on pollution affecting the Euphrates and Gharraf rivers, met with Dhi-Qar environmental officials, trained 13 journalists and bloggers in environmental advocacy, produced 10 environmental radio messages for a 60-day public awareness campaign, and released a short companion video that received more than 27,000 views. EPIC also continued supporting vulnerable children through the Summer of Hope program, in partnership with the Iraqi Children Foundation and the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. The eight-week program provided 27 orphaned and conflict-affected children with a safe space for English, art, STEM, yoga, life skills, mentorship, and healing. These field-based activities demonstrated EPICs core approach: support trusted Iraqi partners, combine evidence with storytelling, and help communities move from urgent problems to practical action.
  Expenses $78,404 · grants $17,361
• POLICY ANALYSIS & ADVOCACY PROGRAM: Advancing Evidence-Based Advocacy on Iraqs Governance, Environment, and Human Security In 2025, EPIC strengthened its policy analysis and advocacy program by bringing grounded Iraqi realities into discussions with international institutions, policy experts, donors, and the public. At a time of political uncertainty, climate stress, and shrinking international assistance, EPIC worked to ensure that Iraqs challenges remained visible and that policy discussions were informed by credible, locally grounded analysis. EPIC briefed European Union asylum experts at the EUAA Specialist Network Meeting on Iraq in The Hague, helping ensure that European policy discussions were informed by current analysis of Iraqs security, humanitarian, and political landscape. The trip also allowed EPIC to strengthen relationships with Iraq-focused researchers, civil society experts, and environmental partners, including Humat Dijlah and SGP-International. This engagement reflected EPICs broader role as a bridge between Iraqi realities and international decision-makers. EPIC continued its environmental justice advocacy on gas flaring, wastewater, water scarcity, and climate resilience. During NYC Climate Week, EPIC brought Iraqs gas flaring crisis to an international audience following a screening of The Last Gasp, joining experts from the Clean Air Task Force, Capterio, PSE Healthy Energy, and the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development. EPICs participation elevated the health, environmental, and governance harms of gas flaring in southern Iraq and connected local Iraqi struggles to global debates on methane pollution, climate justice, and fossil fuel dependence. EPIC also analyzed the outcomes of COP30 and Iraqs climate commitments, highlighting both progress and gaps in Iraqs response to climate change. In particular, EPIC examined the implications of Iraqs updated national climate plan and the need for a just transition away from fossil fuels in a country already facing extreme heat, drought, water scarcity, and environmental degradation. In governance and security policy, EPIC provided timely analysis of Iraqs 2025 parliamentary elections, the entrenchment of armed factions within politics, the weakening of reformist alternatives, and the consequences for accountability and democratic governance. EPIC also welcomed Senior Fellow Ahmed Ali back to its team to strengthen election monitoring, political analysis, and evidence-based advocacy. Across these efforts, EPIC advanced policy conversations on Iraq by connecting field evidence, independent analysis, and principled advocacy. Our policy work helped inform decision-makers in the United States, Europe, and Iraq, while supporting long-term strategies for accountable governance, human rights, environmental justice, and peace.
  Expenses $56,296

What it must file and when

IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.

IRS record

EIN

52-2223500

Tax-exempt status

501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization

Foundation status

Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))

Donations deductible (Pub 78)

Public charity, 50% deduction limit

Exempt since

2001

Accounting year ends

December

Files

Form 990 or 990-EZ

Category (NTEE)

International, foreign affairs and national security (Q410)

Assets (IRS master file)

$49,370

Income (IRS master file)

$308,297

Filing history

990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 52-2223500).

Questions about EDUCATION FOR PEACE IN IRAQ CENTER

What is the EIN of EDUCATION FOR PEACE IN IRAQ CENTER?

The employer identification number (EIN) of EDUCATION FOR PEACE IN IRAQ CENTER is 52-2223500.

Is EDUCATION FOR PEACE IN IRAQ CENTER tax-exempt?

Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2001.

Are donations to EDUCATION FOR PEACE IN IRAQ CENTER tax-deductible?

Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).

Which annual return does EDUCATION FOR PEACE IN IRAQ CENTER file?

Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.

When is the next return of EDUCATION FOR PEACE IN IRAQ CENTER due?

The return for tax year 2026 (the year ending December 31, 2026) is due May 17, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.

When did EDUCATION FOR PEACE IN IRAQ CENTER last file with the IRS?

The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2025.

Who is the principal officer of EDUCATION FOR PEACE IN IRAQ CENTER?

The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 names Erik Gustafson.

Who are the officers and directors of EDUCATION FOR PEACE IN IRAQ CENTER?

The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 lists 7 people; 1 received compensation from the organization, the highest $98,110 (Erik Gustafson, Executive Director).

How much revenue does EDUCATION FOR PEACE IN IRAQ CENTER have?

On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $308,297, expenses of $263,442 and total assets of $49,370 at year end.

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