Geopolitical Insight and Education Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994641608
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $171,829
- Expenses
- $128,141
- Assets
- $171,825
- Liabilities
- $7,500
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bennett Iorio (Founder and president)
People named in this filing
- Bennett Iorio (Founder and president)
- Francesca Sturiale (Operations Lead and director)
- Ines Viana (Former treasurer and director)
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
GIEF promotes social welfare by informing policy decisions on issues affecting democratic stability. We use research to identify systemic bottlenecks and advocate through public education and direct policy advocacy for the implementation of evidence-based interventions to improve governance security environmental sustainability and technological adaptation.
What it reported doing in 2025
GIEF continued conducting in-depth policy research forming the evidence base for its advocacy work to identify topics where targeted advocacy can have meaningful impact. Research remained focused on governance challenges institutional effectiveness technological adaptation and systems affecting public welfare in domestic and international contexts with ongoing development of a sustained body of evidence to inform legislative and regulatory decisions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 76% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.4%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 62.3%; rating input score 62
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.4%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 85%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -108.6% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.4% of revenue deployed · 62.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $80K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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 46/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.