Non-profit

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)

Official logo of the DSA. (link)
Website:

www.dsausa.org

Location:

NEW YORK, NY

Tax ID:

13-3109557

Tax-Exempt Status:

501(c)(4)

Budget (2022):

Revenue: $5,713,635
Expenses: $5,708,157
Assets: $4,733,062

Type:

Socialist political organization

Formation:

1982

National Director:

Maria Svart

Membership (2025):

80,000+

Budget (2023):

Revenue: $6,161,514
Expenses: $7,095,483
Net Assets: $3,697,500

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The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is a far-left political activist group in the United States. It claims to be the largest socialist organization in the country with approximately 80,000 members as of July 2025. 4

Originally founded in 1982 through the merger of two existing left-wing groups, the DSA was closely associated with socialist activist Michael Harrington during its early years. It initially had approximately 6,000 members, which reached as high as 10,000 in the early 1990s before dropping to about 6,500 in late 2014. 19

The Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee was created in 1973, out of a faction from the recently dissolved Socialist Party of America that had been led by Michael Harrington. A socialist activist since the early 1950s, Harrington had been involved with Dorothy Day’s Catholic Worker Movement and also was an organizer for the Workers Defense League. He joined the Independent Socialist League of Max Shachtman, a former Trotskyist whose politics had since drifted toward democratic socialism, and Harrington was put in charge of the group’s youth wing. The Independent Socialist League dissolved in the late 1950s, and many of its former members joined the Socialist Party of America. Harrington was elected to the Socialist Party’s national executive committee in 1960 and edited the party’s official newspaper. 20

Harrington was also involved in the League for Industrial Democracy, whose youth wing reformed itself into SDS in 1960, and in that capacity he attended SDS’s founding convention at Port Huron, Michigan in 1962. Harrington was reported to have been deeply troubled by the resulting “Port Huron Statement”  because he believed the manifesto’s language was not sufficiently anti-communist. Harrington, who was older than the other SDS convention attendees, later explained that his experience as a socialist activist during the 1950s had made his personal anticommunism “not simply a theory, but an emotion as well.” The younger activists could not understand this, and Harrington wrote that “my notion of a progressive, Leftist anti-Communist made as much existential sense to them as a purple cow.” 21

Also in 1962, Harrington published an examination of poverty in the United States called The Other America, which was reportedly influential on the anti-poverty efforts of the Kennedy administration. In 1964 he began working with the Johnson administration’s task force on poverty led by Sargent Shriver. He remained active as a leader within the Socialist Party of America throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, until the party split apart in 1972. 22

Harrington believed that socialists should work within the Democratic Party and attempt to realign its politics to the left. His approach to socialist activism has been characterized as “anti-Communist, friendly to liberals, sympathetic to religion, willing to work within the system, [and] nose turned up at the extremism of SDS.” 24

In 1982 the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee merged with the New American Movement to form the DSA, 27 After the collapse of communism in Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s, many DSA members were disappointed that the formerly communist countries in Eastern Europe that had been under the influence of the Soviet Union gravitated toward Western-style free market capitalism rather than embracing what the DSA called “socialism with a human face.” 35 51

The “Abolition of the Carceral State” category asserted that “the tools of our opposition, enforcing our exploitation and oppression under capitalism, are the repressive forces of the state.” It called for the total abolition of police and prisons and the release of “all people from involuntary confinement.” It also demanded the abolition of misdemeanor offenses and all fines and fees associated with the criminal justice system, the decertification of police unions and their expulsion from labor federations, the repeal of all truancy laws, and a prohibition against schools suspending or expelling troublesome students. 52

The “Abolition of White Supremacy” category linked “the fictions of whiteness” to the development of capitalism in the Western Hemisphere, and argued that “we cannot meaningfully combat capitalism without combating white supremacy and vice versa.” It included specific demands for race-based reparations to be paid at the federal, state, and local government levels, as well as for the establishment of “community based response systems” to replace the current criminal justice system. 53

The “A Powerful Labor Movement” category stated that “the importance of a vibrant, fighting labor movement to building socialist power cannot be overstated.” It included specific demands for the “social ownership of all major industry and infrastructure,” the implementation of a 32-hour workweek, repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, abolishing at-will employment and right-to-work laws, and using government-guaranteed jobs to ensure “work for all who want it.” 54

The “Economic Justice” category proposed “a program of transformative regulation, nationalization, social ownership, and internationalism.” It demanded the socialization and/or nationalization of vast sectors of the economy, including utilities, manufacturing, technology, telecommunications, media, insurance, real estate, and finance, while also limiting “the size and power of businesses not susceptible to nationalization or social control.” It also included proposals to forgive all medical and student loan debt, make public higher education free to students, and for “minimizing testing at all levels of education.” The DSA argued that such programs could be largely paid for “through public development and retail banks, socialized government finance, and taxing the rich and corporations.” 55

The “Gender and Sexuality Justice” category declared that the DSA is a “socialist feminist organization” that fights against “patriarchy, capitalism, and white supremacy.” Specific demands include free elective abortion, free “gender affirming care” to minors without parental consent, and an end to “state recognition of the gender binary and enforcement of heteronormativity.” 56

The “Green New Deal” category asserted that the DSA “is fighting for a social order that works for people and our planet, not profit.” It included a specific demand to “decarbonize the economy” within ten years via solar, wind, and geothermal energy sources, as well as through nationalizing and decommissioning coal, oil, and natural gas producers. The DSA also expressed its aims to “socialize the agricultural system,” guarantee “a job with union wages and benefits” alongside free “water, energy, transit, food, and other necessities” to everyone, disincentivize the use of personal automobiles and air travel, and pay various forms of environmental reparations. 57

The “Health Justice” category demanded a government-controlled health-care system in which medical facilities are publicly owned and funded and health insurance is administered by the federal government. 58

The “Housing for All” category called for “further decommodifying housing and land” through policies designed to force private landlords out of the real estate market alongside the use of “state action to acquire private property and transform [it] into public democratically controlled housing.” 59

The “International Solidarity, Anti-Imperialism, and Anti-Militarism” category declared that the “DSA operates in the heart of a global capitalist empire that has wrought untold suffering on billions of people and the environment,” and listed various supposed “atrocities that make up the legacy of US actions in service of capital.” Specific demands included the immediate withdrawal of the United States from NATO, the forgiveness of foreign debt and the payment of reparations to the survivors of colonization and their descendants, and an end to all sanctions against countries such as Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran. Other sections called for an end to illegal immigrant detention and the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the renunciation and abolition of nuclear weapons, the creation of “a new global monetary order” to replace global reliance on the U.S. dollar, and the “full sovereignty” of Hawaii, Puerto Rico and all other “indigenous nations whose ancestral lands are within current US borders. 60

Abortion

In 2019, the DSA released a statement attacking a new law in Georgia that prohibited abortion after approximately six weeks of pregnancy. It called the law “draconian” and explained that socialists support access to abortion because “capitalism depends on a male and female couple producing babies, and on selfless, unpaid care in the home to nurture those babies into workers and take care of them later in life when they can no longer produce profit for a capitalist.” It noted that DSA chapters had raised over $127,000 for the National Network of Abortion Funds that year. 85

After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the DSA released a statement which condemned the invasion but also blamed the United States and NATO for having undertaken “imperialist expansionism that set the stage for this conflict.” 89

On January 10, 2026, a coalition of nonprofits and advocacy groups organized a protest in Washington D.C to demonstrate against Maduro’s and Flores’ detainment. According to flyers distributed for the event, demands made by the coalition included freeing “President Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores,” “Pass the War Powers Act,” “Impeach Trump For War Crimes,” “No War For Oil,” and “End All Sanctions Against Venezuela.” 95

Transgenderism

The DSA has a division called Trans Rights and Bodily Autonomy (TRBA) which claims it is the “largest hub for grassroots trans rights organizing in America.” The TRBA offers a “Trans Sanctuary City Toolkit” to help activists push for pro-transgender legislation in local governments. This includes banning “discrimination” against trans identity, banning psychiatric practices which aim to address theorized root causes of gender dysphoria, and enacting protections for transgender youth through school boards. The toolkit also offers advice on activist organizing, outlining how DSA members can mobilize to influence legislature meetings and host demonstrations. 97

Environmentalism

The DSA organizes with environmentalist groups, labor unions, and its own local chapters to push for the policy prescriptions laid out in the Green New Deal and to build various non-traditional energy projects and conservation initiatives. The DSA’s environmental division, called “EcoSocialists,” focuses on four areas: creating “publicly owned” non-traditional energy sources; retrofitting and socializing housing with non-traditional energy modifications by partnering with construction trade unions; making public transportation fully funded by the government and enshrining it as a “right”; and creating “green” community spaces and institutions like schools. The DSA’s EcoSocialists claims that even capitalists who support combatting human-caused climate change will inevitably “exploit and immiserate the working class” and that therefore the climate movement must become fully socialist. 123 In addition, the approved resolution would make actions considered pro-Israeli, such as making statements like “Israel has a right to defend itself” or equating “anti-Zionism with antisemitism,” to be considered an “expellable offense” and subject to a vote by the DSA National Political Committee. 123

On August 29, 2025, the Democratic Socialists of America joined United States Campaign for Palestinian Rights and Palestinian Boycott, Divest, Sanctions National Committee in coordinating West Coast protests under the banner “Stop Fueling Genocide.” The demonstrations targeted Chevron gas stations and included highway bannering in California, Oregon, and Washington. 124

Support for Houthis

In January 2024, the United States and the United Kingdom began conducting strikes against the Houthis, an Iran-backed militant group that opposes the internationally recognized Yemeni government. Following the outbreak of the 2023 war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis began launching attacks on commercial shipping passing through the Red Sea. Though the group claimed to be targeting ships which had connections to Israel, many of the ships that were attacked had no links to the country. The Houthis also launched missile and drone attacks against Israel directly.146

Structure and Leadership

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is organized as a 501(c)(4) “social welfare” advocacy nonprofit. It also has an affiliated 501(c)(3) charitable arm called the Democratic Socialists of America Fund (DSA Fund). 158

In 2023, Svart’s salary increased to $102,715 plus an additional $30,948 in other compensation. 159

Cornel West was formerly an honorary DSA chair. 175

On its 2021 tax return, the DSA reported total revenue of $6,854,135, total expenses of $5,632,072, and net assets of $4,732,097. Of its revenue, $6,083,487 came from membership dues. 176

On its 2019 tax return, the DSA reported total revenue of $3,018,438, total expenses of $3,568,241, and net assets of $1,694,062. Of its revenue, $2,302,488 came from membership dues. 177

On its 2016 tax return, the DSA reported total revenue of $861,265, total expenses of $479,962, and net assets of $557,596. Of its revenue, $376,946 came from membership dues. It reported spending $77,839 on “political work (Sanders support).” 178

On its 2014 tax return, the DSA reported total revenue of $299,947, total expenses of $305,918, and net assets of $100,696. 179

Funding

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is primarily funded through membership dues. Supporters are notified that donations to the DSA, as 501(c)(4), are not tax deductible, and that those wishing to make tax deductible donations should donate to Democratic Socialists of America Fund (DSA Fund), its “educational” 501(c)(3) sister organization. In 2023, the DSA Fund received $410,830 in contributions and grants and ended the year with $661,631 in net assets. At that time, it was managed by Maria Svart, its executive director. It granted the national DSA group $25,000 for “youth and student education.” 180 181 185

In 2019, the DSA received $10,000 from Tenants and Owners Development Corporation to “promote public education” and $1,500 from Craigslist Charitable Fund. 186 187

In 2020, the DSA received $1,000 from the Communication Workers of America (CWA) labor union. 188

From 2016 to 2020, the DSA received at least $149,429 from the Jewish Communal Fund for “general support.” 189 190 191 192

In 2022, the DSA Fund received $3,000 from the M. Jay Kramer Foundation for “general support,” $10,000 from the Benjamin Fund (now Arc of Justice) for “general support,” $7,361 from the Blackbaud Giving Fund, and $10,000 from the One World Fund for “general support.” 193 194 195 196

In 2023, the DSA Fund received $3,087 from the M. Jay Kramer Foundation for “general support.” 197

In 2024, the DSA Fund received $3,000 from the M. Jay Kramer Foundation for “general support.” 198

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    2012 Dec Form 990 $269,123 $291,863 $141,938 $15,926 N $250,453 $0 $0 $55,047 PDF
    2011 Dec Form 990 $262,353 $287,305 $172,466 $23,714 N $228,859 $0 $13 $0 PDF
    2010 Dec Form 990 $341,719 $224,129 $182,717 $9,013 N $325,770 $0 $32 $45,203 PDF

    Additional Filings (PDFs)

    Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)

    75 MAIDEN LN STE 702
    NEW YORK, NY 10038-4667