ITR Foundation
Legal name: Iowans for Tax Relief Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 421184154
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Waukee, IA, US
- Phone
- 515-895-3725
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $155,324
- Expenses
- $270,202
- Assets
- $290,127
- Liabilities
- $3,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTOPHER INGSTAD (PRESIDENT)
- ASHLEIGH HACKEL (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CHRISTOPHER INGSTAD (PRESIDENT)
- PETER E VOORHEES (CHAIRMAN)
- BRYAN OHGE (VICE CHAIRMAN)
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
ITR Foundation works to research, educate Iowans about our solutions, and activate Iowans in support of our solutions.
What it reported doing in 2025
To ensure every iowan can achieve the american dream by fostering: a pro-growth tax code, a friendly business climate, and an education system that prepares responsible leaders and citizens for the workforce.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -74%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.07; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.7% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $237K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.