Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation

Analysis

Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public and societal benefit, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation reported income of $5.4m and spending of $2.4m, leaving 55% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $829k to $5.4m (+553%), an average of +60% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 86%. Over the whole period it spent 62% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 81st percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include El Reposo Nursing Facility ($5.4m), Rosa Clark Medical Center ($5.4m) and Fearless Hudson Valley Inc ($5.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $772k. At year end it held assets of $5.8m against liabilities of $544k, net assets of $5.3m.