Fair Elections Center

What it reported doing in 2024

Campus vote project (cvp): cvp works with universities, community colleges, faculty, students, and election officials to reduce barriers to student voting. The program enables campus leadership to institutionalize reforms that empower students with information on how to register and vote. College students face special challenges when attempting to register and vote in their college communities. These students sometimes lack information about voter registration rules and deadlines, lack acceptable forms of id for voter registration or voting purposes, lack transportation to the polls, face confusion about where to vote, or even face unsympathetic election officials. In recent years, some state legislatures around the country pursued laws that seek to limit access to the polls with particularly damaging effects for student voters. Cvp seeks to address these challenges by providing school administrators current voting information that they can offer their students during events like orientation and class registration. Cvp also develops best practices for colleges to disseminate information to all enrolled students through campus-wide communications during voter registration, early voting, and on election day. In 2024, cvp marked its 12th year working nationwide to institutionalize access to voting for college students. Cvp partnered with about 340 campuses that enrolled more than 4 million students in 41 states and the district of columbia. The project ran staffed programs in ten states (az, fl, ga, mi, nc, oh, pa, tx, va, wi) and established between 20 and 35 formal partnerships with schools in each of these states. Cvp also pays stipends to student "democracy fellows" to work with campus administrators, faculty, and other student leaders to support non-partisan voter education efforts. Fec also provides them with leadership and election law training. In 2024, xxx fellows completed the program in the spring and 260 completed the program in the fall. Additionally, cvp furthered its hbcu legacy initiative, ain the fall. Additionally, cvp furthered its hbcu legacy initiative, a ain the fall. Additionally, cvp furthered its hbcu legacy initiative, a in program started in 2020 designed to specifically address barriers to student voting and encourage increased civic engagement on more than 45 historically black colleges and universities in cvp's 10 staffed states as well as in al, md, and la.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 63.1%; rating input score 63
• Program expense ratio: 72.4%; rating input score 72
• Fundraising efficiency: $28.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 15%; rating input score 15; 12th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • 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: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 13.5%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 13.4%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 22.4% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 24.4% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings