Transparency Coalition Ai

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
992618608
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
2065942079
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy

Reported finances

Revenue
$438,446
Expenses
$431,139
Assets
$215,174
Liabilities
$16,955

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ROBERT J ELEVELD JR (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • MYSORE JAISIMHA (BOARD MEMBER UNTIL 5/13/25): $93,000 total reported compensation
  • YOKO MIYASHITA (SECRETARY STARTING ON 5/13/25): $2,000 total reported compensation
  • CHRISTY JOHNSON (BOARD MEMBER STARTING ON 5/13/25): $2,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Dedicated to conducting research regarding privacy and copyright implications of generative artificial intelligence and educating the public on the associated opportunities and risks.

What it reported doing in 2025

We expanded our ai education by launching "parents playbook for ai" on substack. Our main website, transparencycoalition.ai, remains focused on lawmakers, policy leaders, government officials, and journalists. Parents playbook is geared toward the decisions that families make every day regarding the digital diet of their children-and themselves. We continued to invest in partnerships to build a broad coalition, now with over 20 partners with whom we collaborate in at least one state. A partner growth area for us in 2025 was family and child-focused partners, education partners, and organic coalitions like the human-like ai coalition.we offered technical and policy data and expertise to policy leaders in 15 states. We expanded our editorial coverage to focus on "bill explainers and launched our first 2025 ai legislation report. We see a large gap in state bill coverage, unpacking details of a complex topic like ai bills into tangible summaries and gathering legislative data for broad analysis of state ai legislative trends. Our website recorded more than 65,000 visits in 2025. Our subscribers across email newsletters and linkedin now total more than 1,200.

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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 45
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.7%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 78%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.5 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th 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: 50%; rating input score 50; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.7%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.5%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 57.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.7% of revenue deployed · 78% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $336K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $93K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 23/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.