American Online Giving Foundation
Legal name: American Online Giving Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810739440
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Newark, DE, United States
- Phone
- 8008285415
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,503,754,849
- Expenses
- $2,389,585,063
- Assets
- $445,317,505
- Liabilities
- $232,589,498
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRYAN DE LOTTINVILLE (DIRECTOR & PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BRYAN DE LOTTINVILLE (DIRECTOR & PRESIDENT)
- KATHY FIELDS POVOAS (DIRECTOR)
- REBECCA SKVORC (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to connect causes with the world’s largest companies and their employees, using technology to transform the way they receive funds and freeing up their time and resources to focus on delivering community impact.
What it reported doing in 2025
The foundation efficiently works with corporate employee giving programs and otherwise seeks to educate employers concerning, and promotes, corporate social responsibility and generosity by individuals. The foundation also seeks to maximize the convenience of charitable giving by corporations and their employees, while at the same time minimizing the overall administrative costs associated with such giving. The foundation's principal activity is providing charitable grants to qualified charitable beneficiaries.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 98% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some related-organization disclosures are missing.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.2%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 99.7%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 96.3%; rating input score 96; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Scored; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.6%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.52; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 95.2% of revenue deployed · 99.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.4B in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $60.5M reported
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and related organizations
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.