Defending Education: mission, leadership and finances

What it does

Defending Education is a nonprofit that investigates schools and files complaints about policies on race, gender and speech.

Defending Education is listed here in the category "Advocacy". A listing on 4conservative.com describes an organization; it is not an endorsement of it or of its positions.

History

It was founded in 2021 in Northern Virginia in response to local school debates, and Nicole Neily is its president.

Defending Education is a advocacy organization. Like other organizations in this collection, it is described here from its own published material and from public records, and the facts on this page are limited to what those sources state.

Leadership and funding

It is funded by donations. No IRS figures are shown here because ProPublica did not return a filing for it under this name.

This page shows no IRS finance figures because no Form 990 filing could be matched to the organization in ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer. The figures describe a single tax year and can differ sharply from year to year; check the filing itself and the organization's own site for the current picture.

Where it stands

It opposes critical race theory and gender ideology in schools.

These summaries reflect the organization's own stated mission and publicly known activities as of the date below; they are neutral descriptions, not evaluations. Related organizations on this site include Moms for Liberty, Center for Individual Rights, American Principles Project.