The Integrity Project Co
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881294785
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Scottsdale, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4808606500
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $96,000
- Expenses
- $98,465
- Assets
- $81,386
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- C JOSEPH BLACKBOURN (President)
People named in this filing
- C JOSEPH BLACKBOURN (President)
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
The Integrity Project intends to pursue research, education, and intentional inoculation to address the prevalent use of misinformation in the public sphere. There is an international issue with ever-increasing misinformation that must be stopped. The Projects goal is to remove doubt about facts within the communication ecosystem by protecting the transparency and trustworthiness of truth with non-partisan, contextual insights that uphold the safety and security of our democracy. Education of the public is key to discerning the misinformation and seeing past it.
What it reported doing in 2024
Education and Awareness - Through web and social media channels, this program aggregates relevant news and research to create a repository of information for researchers and other interested third parties and educate the public. This program also reviews and recommends documentaries and books related to the subjects of educating on misinformation, misinformation in science and technology, misinformation in journalism, confidence in technology and government, and issues threatening democracy and democratic institutions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. 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: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.4%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 54%; rating input score 54
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: -2.6%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.9% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -44.2% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 55.4% of revenue deployed · 54% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $53K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.