Based Politics Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874207995
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 6154574543
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $131,805
- Expenses
- $327,337
- Assets
- $91,495
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HANNAH COX SERR (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- HANNAH COX SERR (PRESIDENT): $89,105 total reported compensation
- RACHEL REID (DIRECTOR OF STRATEGY AND OPERATIONS): $31,731 total reported compensation
- BRAD POLUMBO (EDITOR IN CHIEF): $27,087 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At basedpolitics, we are reimagining how the liberty movement competes. We develop and train a new generation of communicators who understand that politics flows downstream from culture - and that culture now lives online. Our programs equip advocates to use digital platforms not just for storytelling, but for education, activation, and real policy impact.
What it reported doing in 2025
Based politics media fellowship: we offer training programs for activists who want to translate their skills to new media platforms. The liberty movement needs to equip our talent pool to take their skills online. Whether you want to be a full-time political commentator, or your're seeking to advance the political work you're already doing through online forums, we're here to help.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 49
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 49.8%; rating input score 50
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -148.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 45.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -15.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 49.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $163K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $89K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.