Americans for a Balanced Budget Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464576284
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, USA
- Phone
- 2025065320
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,195,395
- Expenses
- $2,210,927
- Assets
- $245,992
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DOUGLAS F STEWART III (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DOUGLAS F STEWART III (PRESIDENT): $120,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
For decades, americans for a balanced budget (abb) has stood as a bulwark for common-sense public policy at all levels of government. As the national debt creates a growing fiscal crisis, it's more important than ever to have a conservative organization standing firm for fiscal responsibility, economic growth, and effective government for the american people. Abb effectively advocates for common sense policy objectives important to conservatives for the betterment of all americans. It will always be a voice seeking to help build an america with greater opportunities and a brighter future for all americans.
What it reported doing in 2025
Americans for a balanced budget (abb) conducted issue advocacy, including issue advocacy campaigns opposing hr1 and the budget reconciliation bill; publicly supported the patent reform bill before congress and highlighted world ip day; sponsored, produced, and placed digital ads in favor of allowing reduced risk nicotine products and in support of public policies that increase the availability of clean energy; operated pharmacy benefit manager education ad campaign; and provided grants to organizations that aligned with the mission of abb.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.6%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 91.9%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $81,310.93 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.7%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 28.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.6% of revenue deployed · 91.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $120K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.