Votefactscom News Reports C/o Richard Thomas
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874622860
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Front Royal, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5402227190
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Voter Education, Registration
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,038
- Expenses
- $15,343
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICHARD THOMAS (PRESIDENT & TREASURER)
People named in this filing
- RICHARD THOMAS (PRESIDENT & TREASURER)
- NANCY TURGEON (SECRETARY)
- RANDALL WYNN (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
A nonpartisan, public-access news site, votefacts.com news reports tracks major legislative actions and individual voting records in the u.s. Congress for the benefit of civically engaged citizens and organizations, with its daily and weekly coverage spanning the 117th congress (2021-2022), 118th congress (2023-2024) and later congresses.
What it reported doing in 2024
Accredited by the u.s. House and senate daily press galleries, the organization is america's only professional news organization devoted exclusively to reporting the congressional voting process regularly and in plain terms to inform constituents who follow the work of their federal lawmakers. The organization's website, open to the public, provides readers with a steady flow of concise, journalistic summaries of key issues debated in the house and senate paired with individual voting records on each measure.the website's current and breaking coverage is sorted by date, while archival coverage is sorted alphabetically under such topics as abortion, biden agenda, democracy, equality, foreign affairs & defense, guns, immigration, labor & workplace, and law enforcement.the organization terminated its activities on 12/10/2024.
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
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.1%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -27.5%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd 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: -32.7% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -45.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -100% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 19/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.