California Voter Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680190132
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9164412494
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $136,380
- Expenses
- $159,720
- Assets
- $95,289
- Liabilities
- $5,110
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIM ALEXANDER (President)
People named in this filing
- CATHY DARLING ALLEN (Chair)
- KIM ALEXANDER (President)
- STEPHEN LEVINE (Treasurer)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The California voter foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working through research, oversight, outreach and demonstration projects to improve the election process so that it better serves the needs and interests of voters.
What it reported doing in 2024
THE CALIFORNIA VOTER FOUNDATION WORKED TO IMPROVE THE VOTING PROCESS IN 2024 THROUGH NUMEROUS PROGRAMS: Election Community Network: CVF facilitated the Election Community Network, a nationwide, nonpartisan network of leaders working to support election officials and election administration. Voter Education: CVF produced an online guide and web site to help California voters make informed choices in the 2024 primary and general elections.Close Count Transparency Project: CVF publicly tracked the daily vote count in eleven highly competitive congressional races and eight legislative races to increase transparency and build public trust in election results by providing a window into the vote counting process.
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 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 79.5%; rating input score 79
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -17.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 68.9%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93% of revenue deployed · 79.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $127K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.