Americans for Fair Taxation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
760472195
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Dallas, TX, USA
Phone
7272385754
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$33,359
Expenses
$44,845
Assets
$57,899
Liabilities
$23,279

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STEVEN HAYES (CHAIRMAN & PRESIDENT)
  • RANDY FISCHER (VICE PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • RON BABIN (DIRECTOR)
  • STEVEN HAYES (CHAIRMAN & PRESIDENT)
  • JIM BENNETT (SECRETARY & 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Americans for fair taxation's (afft) mission is to educate our members and supporters about tax reform by leveraging technology as our primary communication tool. Afft lobbies to support the replacement of federal income tax system with a single-rate, national sales tax.

What it reported doing in 2025

Americans for fair taxation (afft) conducts research and disseminates public education information regarding the u.s. Tax system.afft volunteers present speeches to chambers of commerce, rotary clubs, churches, and politically active groups on multiple partisan forums, (i.e. Libertarian, democratic, republican) discussing the impact of the national retail sales tax; afft participates in radio interviews, local and national television appearances talking about the need for tax reform and the economic effects of a national retail sales tax. Afft regularly updates research data on the effects of a national retail sales tax on various aspects of the economy. Afft works actively with allied groups, congressional hearings and the president's tax panel to educate them on the economic impact of a national retail sales tax.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -34.4%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.29; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -20.6% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $45K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.