Fix Democracy First
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270056380
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2065523287
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Government and Public Administration
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $43,510
- Expenses
- $44,125
- Assets
- $14,792
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cindy Black (Executive Director)
- Linda Brewster (President)
- Ken Dammand (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Cindy Black (Executive Director)
- Linda Brewster (President)
- Ken Dammand (Vice President)
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
To achieve fair elections and government policies that reflect the will of the people, not the power of money.
What it reported doing in 2025
Fix Democracy First worked statewide to support good government policies and democracy reforms to strengthen the democratic process.
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 68% for direct work, and 32% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.2%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 71.2%; rating input score 71
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.4%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 46.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -14.2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.7% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.2% of revenue deployed · 71.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $31K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.