The Institute for Civility in Government
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 760556192
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7134441254
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Federated Giving Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $138,336
- Expenses
- $54,743
- Assets
- $315,906
- Liabilities
- $77
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cassandra Dahnke (President)
People named in this filing
- Cassandra Dahnke (President)
- John Alford (Director)
- Mary Josie Blanchard (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Reducing polarization of our legislative process by facilitating dialogue, teaching respect & building civility in both the public & private spheres.
What it reported doing in 2024
Civility Training & Speaking - We provided our civilitytraining to 517 people, totaling 1,597 individual traininghours, during 7 different training sessions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 87
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43.6%; rating input score 44
- Program expense ratio: 99.3%; rating input score 99
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: 60.4%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.77; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 43.6% of revenue deployed · 99.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $54K 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: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 44/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.