Foundation for Information Accountability and Governance

Analysis

Foundation for Information Accountability and Governance is a registered charity in United States, based in Fishers, IN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2013, 13 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, Foundation for Information Accountability and Governance reported income of $702k and spending of $909k, spending 129% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.0m to $702k (-32%), an average of -9.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Foundation for Information Accountability and Governance sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 75th percentile within IN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Farmers Library Company of the Town of Ogden ($702k), Public Benefit Holding Corporation of Spencer Iowa ($702k) and Asotin County Food Bank Association ($702k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $709k against liabilities of $62k, net assets of $647k.