Fight for the Future Education Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452852041
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Boston, MA, USA
- Phone
- 5083683026
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Citizen Participation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,345,978
- Expenses
- $1,702,332
- Assets
- $2,280,950
- Liabilities
- $146,043
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TIFFINIY CHENG (PRESIDENT)
- SARAH GAUDETTE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- EVAN GREER (DIRECTOR): $163,334 total reported compensation
- SARAH GAUDETTE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $160,674 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are a public education organization created to support the principle of public freedom and open exchange on the internet. Our work supports the basic resources that make an open, engaging, competitive, dynamic public space, discourse, economy and culture possible. We work to educate and create new public discourse about copyright and the threat the growing copyright industry is to public goods, the economy, and the public sphere. We work against new cultural attempts to distort the open, neutral internet. Our public information campaigns help to explain new public behaviors in the age of a quickly developing internet and explain new technologies. We believe in maintaining and cultivating creative innovation, internet freedom, level playing fields in the worlds of business and ideas, openness, transparency, lack of censorship, anti-corruption, public goods and values, and community self-reliance.
What it reported doing in 2024
Freedom of expression - increase awareness about digital censorship
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.9%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 73.3%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 27.4%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.9% of revenue deployed · 73.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $163K · 6 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.