Just Facts Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208725168
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Conroe, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9735395280
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Media, Communications Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $239,170
- Expenses
- $260,355
- Assets
- $70,166
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES D AGRESTI (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JAMES D AGRESTI (PRESIDENT): $135,332 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 research, document, & publish verifiable facts on critical issues and teach research skills.
What it reported doing in 2025
Published 297 "in fact" posts that refuted falsehoods spread by influential people. These facts received 11 million social media views and more than a million engagements such as likes", "loves, and comments.updated core research on the issues of immigration, social security, global warming, healthcare, energy, the national debt, education, and income, wealth and poverty.published 12 just facts daily articles, which were syndicated by 21 organizations and websites, such as the heartland institute, grabien, the Tennessee star, the epoch times, and issues & insights.published 228 fact app questions and answers.completed the bulk of our new core research on artificial intelligence, which we are publishing in 2026q1.published 9 original videos via our just facts news, and just facts academy initiatives, which received 1.6 million views.received 83 citations of our work, which reached tens of millions of people in venues like these:-fox news conducted extensive interviews with just facts president jim agresti and featured them in 10 articles on foxnews.com, including six articles that were among the top 4 stories on their home page, and three that were their #1 stories. In these interviews, agresti shared incisive facts about issues like the big beautiful bill, social security, and trump's dc crime crackdown.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.6%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 66.7%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.99 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.9%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 52%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.6% of revenue deployed · 66.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $174K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $135K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 21/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.