Institute for Representative Government Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521575041
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 7036248636
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Exchange, N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $66,257
- Expenses
- $57,603
- Assets
- $207,565
- Liabilities
- $194,104
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
People named in this filing
- THOMAS DAVIS (SECRETARY)
- RODNEY DAVIS (TRUSTEE)
- CHARLES DENT (BOARD OF DIRECTORS)
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 promote democracy abroad through an understanding of the american political system and a peer-to-peer dialogue involving elected officials from emerging or
What it reported doing in 2025
To promote democracy abroad through an understandingof the american political system and a peer-to-peerdialogue involving elected officials from emerging or
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.5%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 91.4%; rating input score 91
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.1%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.6; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.94; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 83.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.6% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.5% of revenue deployed · 91.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $53K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.