Article IV
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862820532
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Arlington, VA, USA
- Phone
- 2024306260
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Expenses
- $1,728,273
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GEORGE WELLDE III (President)
People named in this filing
- GEORGE WELLDE III (President)
- SETH LONDON (Director)
- AWENATE COBINA (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
See Schedule O
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, the organization evaluated opportunities for democracy reform , provided strategic support to reform campaigns in varying stages, and provided
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 86% 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Sustainability: 5
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 91.7%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.8%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 62.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -43% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 4 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 57 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 49 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.