Faith in Democracy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990645675
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Interfaith Coalitions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $197,763
- Expenses
- $267,172
- Assets
- $53,346
- Liabilities
- $13,926
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- JENNIFER BUTLER (OFFICER)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of faith in democracy is to unleash the potential of faith as a force for democracy worldwide. They empower faith communities and their allies to counter authoritarianism and religous nationalism through training, advocacy, and campaigns, reclaiming moral language for democratic values.
What it reported doing in 2025
During the fiscal year ended may 31, 2026, faith in democracy carried out programs to strengthen democratic values, religious pluralism, and human rights through education, leadership development, research, and collaboration with faith leaders, civil society organizations, and philanthropic partners in the united states and internationally. A significant accomplishment was the planning and execution of a global convening in lisbon, portugal, that brought together faith leaders, human rights advocates, democracy organizers, and philanthropic partners from multiple countries. The convening fostered collaboration expanded shared understanding of transnational religious nationalism, and developed strategies to support democratic resilience. The organization expanded its international leadership development initiatives in europe and latin america by providing training, educational resources, strategic analysis, briefings, and messaging guidance to faith leaders and civil society partners addressing threats to democracy, human rights, and vulnerable communities. In the united states, faith in democracy advanced nonpartisan civic engagement by supporting faith leaders, clergy, and community advocates in promoting democratic values, encouraging pluralism, reducing polarization, and strengthening civic participation. Throughout the year, the organization brought together faith communities, human rights organizations, democracy advocates, and philanthropic partners to strengthen collaboration and advance its mission.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 41.7%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 30.9%; rating input score 31
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -35.1%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -71.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 41.7% of revenue deployed · 30.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $82K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.