Fair Count Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 582421574
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4048352891
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nonprofit Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,353,553
- Expenses
- $4,321,356
- Assets
- $1,785,920
- Liabilities
- $157,639
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEANINE ABRAMS MCLEAN (PRESIDENT)
- REBECCA DEHART (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- REBECCA DEHART (CEO): $186,634 total reported compensation
- JEANINE ABRAMS MCLEAN (PRESIDENT): $155,566 total reported compensation
- DHYANA TAYLOR (FINANCE & OPERATIONS DIRECTOR): $124,622 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Fair count builds long-term power within historically undercounted communities. With the census as our north star, we use every iteration of civic participation as a catalyst to build a more equitable democracy.
What it reported doing in 2025
Founded in 2019 and anchored in Georgia, fair count is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to partnering with historically undercounted communities to achieve a fair and accurate count of all people in Georgia, Mississippi, and the nation in the decennial census, and to strengthen the pathways to greater civic participation. We have built and fostered local, regional, and national partnerships through civic events starting with the 2020 census and continuing through the 2024 general election and beyond.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 61% for direct work, and 39% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.6%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.25 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -28.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.4%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $187K · 10 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $122K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.