Constituting America Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Winner promotion - the work performed or created by our contest winners does not lie dormant. Constituting america is the only organization that utilizes the mediums of movies, music and television for the national distribution of the kids' own winning works to inspire americans of all ages to learn about the u.s. Constitution. We submit our contest winners' public service announcements (psas) to television and radio stations across the nation, and they are actually played on tv and radio. As of 2024, 275 television stations had played our winners' public service announcements and/or had them in rotation reaching over 138 million households. Our winners' radio psa's have been played on over 20 radio stations in major markets such as chicago, detroit, Washington, dc, las vegas and honolulu garnering over 105 million nielsen-verified radio impressions. We submit our winners' films to film festivals across the nation. In 2024, our we the future contest winners' psa's, short films and music videos received 43 official selection honors- a prestigious designation by a film festival recognizing a film's artistic value-with 7 ultimately winning an award. To date, we the future contest films include 155 official selections and 21 award winners. Constituting america works with winners of our songwriting contest to professionally record their songs; we work with grassroots promotion of nashville to submit the songs to radio stations, and our winners' songs actually get played on the radio. Our song winners have recorded in the historic quonset hut recording studio in nashville, in grammy winners michael boddicker and lari white's studios and at new republic studios in austin. In 2023, we assisted we the future contest winner colt jaxon in preparing and professionally recording his winning song, "free today," for 2024 airplay on radio stations across the country. With our promotional help, "free today" went on to receive over 14 million impressions on more than 31 radio stations in 2024 cumulatively, our winners' songs have been played on 81 radio stations, with 174 million impressions. Winning artwork by our students is utilized to create holiday cards and these cards are mailed out to national, state and local leaders. We also place the winning artwork on notecards that are sold in our constituting america store and given away as prizes at our public speaking events. Constitution day programming - for the seventh year in a row, our "we the future" contest winners participated in a constitution day program produced by constituting america. After two years of participating in live programming with the u.s. Department of education, in 2020 constituting america created our own five-hour virtual event, a series of workshops, live-streamed to students and classrooms across america, and continued and grew this event in 2024, broadcasting live from mount vernon in a 90-minute program starring our we the future contest winners. The 2024 program included a live fife and drum performance, color guard presentation, musical performances of student-winning songs, student-produced psas highlighting the first amendment and civil civic conversations, a historical skit presented with professional actors, and a student-led panel discussion on why the constitution matters today. Classrooms from 203 schools in 46 states across the u.s. Tuned in with 6,029 live viewers. Additionally, we shipped out 6,194 free constitutions to schools to assist in their constitution day educational programs. American exceptionalism: how & why it matter - in 2023 we launched our newest program: a podcast, documentary and docu-series entitled american exceptionalism: how & why it matters. As background on the project, each year for the past 13 years, as part of our "history holds the key to the future" online study, constituting america has chosen a topic related to america and america's founding documents, recruiting top scholars to research and write about the topic. Our 2022

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 70.9%; rating input score 71
• Program expense ratio: 82.8%; rating input score 83
• Fundraising efficiency: $10.83 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Pass
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Pass
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 57.1%; rating input score 57; 12th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 14.4%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 24.9%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings