International Society for Individual Liberty
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541512492
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 6025164341
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Peace and Security
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $707,177
- Expenses
- $565,878
- Assets
- $1,949,216
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JACEK SPENDEL (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JACEK SPENDEL (PRESIDENT): $54,075 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To bring liberty to every corner of the world by sharing the philosophy and benefits of freedom, emphasizing educating newcomers. We spread liberty and foster a global network of freedom champions, empowering them to become change agents in their own countries.
What it reported doing in 2025
Technology & freedom: san francisco event: liberty international hosted a donor-exclusive "technology & freedom" event in san francisco, bringing together thought leaders to explore the relationship between innovation, regulation, and individual liberty in the digital age. The program featured lawrence w. Reeds engaging i, smartphone presentation on spontaneous order, insights from terry easton on protecting personal privacy, and john chisholms discussion on the role of ai and common law in modern governance. The evening concluded with a fireside chat with scott banister on the future of digital freedom. Together, these conversations reinforced lis commitment to addressing todays most pressing challenges to liberty through education and open dialogue. Phoenix from the ashes: business mission, argentina 2025: liberty international launched the inaugural "phoenix from the ashes" argentina business mission in august 2025. The mission brought together entrepreneurs and investors from the u.s., poland, brazil, and canada for a four-day exploration of argentinas economic transformation. Participants met with the chamber of commerce, visited the buenos aires stock exchange, explored the vaca muerta energy sector, engaged with tech entrepreneurs, and visited the cultural landmark teatro coln. Emotional & mental freedom online course: in 2025, liberty international held two editions of the "emotional and mental freedom" online course, a transformative four-week live journey. This program is designed as a personal offering to the movement, equipping participants with essential practical tools for life. The course bridges the gap between external success and profound inner peace. Participants learned effective techniques to regulate emotions, transform conflict into opportunity, and overcome the "unconscious beliefs" that often hinder advocacy potential. Led by dr. Mary ruwart, the program featured speakers including agnieszka plonka, maria alejandra londoo, thomas hill, and jeff crawford. "i, smartphone: far smarter than you ever imagined" (essay): liberty international collaborated with lawrence w. Reed on the essay "i, smartphone: far smarter than you ever imagined," which builds upon the timeless "i, pencil" analogy. The essay uses the modern smartphone to illustrate the principles of spontaneous order and the "knowledge problem," emphasizing that complex inventions are products of the free market's "invisible hand." it demonstrates how countless individuals, motivated by self-interest and guided by the price system, cooperate to create wonders that no central planner could achieve alone. Digital nomad tax freedom index 2025: liberty international expanded its digital nomad toolkit to ensure that liberty is a practical lifestyle as well as an intellectual pursuit. Released in october 2025, the updated index serves as an essential guide for "global nomads" navigating an increasingly mobile world. This initiative provides the critical data necessary for remote professionals to legally minimize tax burdens and maximize personal liberty. The index ranks jurisdictions based on fiscal freedom, tax optimization, safety, and quality of life.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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 and most voting board members are independent. 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: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 73
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.6%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 55.6%; rating input score 56
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Pass
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Pass
- Requires grant agreements: Pass
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.44; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.6%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.6% of revenue deployed · 55.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $315K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $54K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes foreign activity
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.