Committee for a Unified Independent Party Inc D/b/a Independentvotingorg
Overview
Mission
To participate in the development of a movement of independent voters, in partnership with americans of all persuasions, to reform america's political process, create nonpartisan coalitions and develop a broad and inclusive consensus for self-governance. Independent voting works to educate and incentivize the nonprofit sector, academia, political organizations and leaders to take up the causes of this movement and independent voters.
What it reported doing in 2024
Cuip is a center that develops strategies and provides leadership training for america's growing independent movement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133876715
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Shushan, NY, USA
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Citizen Participation
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 89.7%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.43 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -43.6%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.37; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 60.8%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $375K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $145K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 annual filings from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.