Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$621,656

Total expenses

$1,197,749

Contributions and grants received

$568,334

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$49,927

Other revenue

$3,395

Total assets, end of year

$1,521,366

Total liabilities, end of year

$9,943

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,511,423

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$867,230

Management and general expenses

$223,582

Fundraising expenses

$106,937

Program service expenses (Part III)

$867,230

Program services were 72.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• EARC DBA RANKED CHOICE VOTING RESOURCE CENTER (RCVRC) IS THE NATION'S ONLY ORGANIZATION DEDICATED SOLELY TO PROMOTING AND SUPPORTING THE ADMINISTRATION OF RANKED CHOICE VOTING (RCV). BECAUSE ELECTION OFFICES ARE OFTEN UNDERSTAFFED AND UNDERFUNDED, WE PROVIDE OUR EDUCATIONAL SERVICES AND TOOLS FOR FREE OR AT A NOMINAL FEE BASED ON STATE AND LOCAL POLICIES. RCV WAS USED STATEWIDE IN TWO STATES TO ELECT STATE AND FEDERAL OFFICIALS AND IN 11 CITIES ACROSS SEVEN STATES TO ELECT LOCAL OFFICIALS IN 2024. RCVRC STAFF SUPPORTED ELECTION STAFF IN MANY OF THESE JURISDICTIONS, PROVIDING EXPERT ADVICE ON IMPLEMENTING ORDINANCES AND REGULATIONS, PRESENTATIONS, CONSULTATIONS, TRAINING STAFF ON RCV AND RCTAB, AND ADVISING ON RCV IMPLEMENTATION BEST PRACTICES. IN PARTICULAR, WE PARTNERED WITH MULTNOMAH COUNTY, OR, TO SUPPORT THEIR RCV IMPLEMENTATION FOR PORTLAND'S NOVEMBER 2024 ELECTIONS. WE ADVISED THE COUNTY STAFF ON MANY ASPECTS OF THEIR RCV IMPLEMENTATION, INCLUDING AUDIT AND RECOUNT PROCESSES, RESULTS DISPLAYS, VOTER EDUCATION, AND RCTAB.* STATES IMPACTED (23): ALASKA, ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, CONNECTICUT, GEORGIA, IDAHO, ILLINOIS, MAINE, MARYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, MINNESOTA, MISSOURI, MONTANA, NEW YORK, OHIO, OREGON, PENNSYLVANIA, UTAH, VERMONT, VIRGINIA, WASHINGTON, & WISCONSIN* CITIES IMPACTED (4): PORTLAND (ME), WESTBROOK (ME), PORTLAND/MULTNOMAH COUNTY (OR), & ARLINGTON (VA)RESOURCES RELEASED IN 2024:* NEW REPORTS: RCV VOTER INTENT ENCYCLOPEDIA, RCV AND ELECTION MANAGEMENT PAPER, AND RAPID RCV RESULTS MEMO. ALL THESE REPORTS ARE DESIGNED TO HELP ELECTION OFFICIALS PREPARE FOR RCV IMPLEMENTATION BY PROVIDING THEM WITH REAL-WORLD INSIGHTS FROM EXISTING RCV ELECTIONS.* REPORT UPDATES: RCV RECOUNTS, RCV AUDITS, RCV RESULTS, AND RCV RESULTS DISPLAY BEST PRACTICES. THESE UPDATES COLLECT INFORMATION ABOUT EACH OF THESE RCV POLICY AREAS IN ORDER TO PROVIDE UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ABOUT ADVANCEMENTS IN RCV IMPLEMENTATION POLICY.* RCVRC ALSO LAUNCHED AN RCV IMPLEMENTATION TRACKING TOOL AND THE RCV ELECTION IN A BOX TOOL IN 2024. THESE RESOURCES PROVIDE VALUABLE TRANSPARENCY ABOUT HOW RCV IMPLEMENTATIONS WORK IN PRACTICE AND POINT ELECTION OFFICIALS TOWARDS TOOLS AND RESOURCES THEY CAN USE WHEN IMPLEMENTING RCV.* WE CONTINUED TO EXPAND OUR SERIES OF RCV IMPLEMENTATION FACT SHEETS BY ADDING POST-ELECTION AUDITS OF RCV ELECTIONS, RCV COMMS PLANS, AND THE RCV IN A BOX TOOL. WE ALSO UPDATED OUR ENTIRE SUITE OF FACT SHEETS TO PROVIDE UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ABOUT RCV IMPLEMENTATION.* OUR PODCAST, RCV CLIPS, COVERS RCV ELECTION ADMINISTRATION TOPICS RANGING FROM DRAFTING LEGISLATION TO ELECTION CERTIFICATION TO BEST PRACTICES LEARNED FROM RUNNING RCV ELECTIONS. RCV CLIPS HAS LIFETIME PODCAST DOWNLOADS OF 10,696 OVER 7 YEARS. EPISODES WERE RELEASED MONTHLY, AND GUESTS WERE LOCATED ACROSS THE COUNTRY FROM ALASKA TO WASHINGTON, DC.

  Expenses $444,962

• EARC PROVIDES ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT RESOURCES AVAILABLE IN THE ELECTION WORLD, RCTAB. RCTAB IS A FREE, OPEN-SOURCE TABULATION SOFTWARE THAT USES BALLOT DATA FROM VOTING SYSTEMS TO RUN THE ROUND-BY-ROUND COUNT. OVER THE YEARS, MULTIPLE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPERS HAVE VOLUNTEERED THEIR SERVICES TO HELP US CREATE USER-FRIENDLY, SECURE SOFTWARE THAT BREAKS DOWN BARRIERS TO IMPLEMENTATION.* RCTAB HAS BEEN APPROVED OR CERTIFIED FOR USE AS STANDALONE SOFTWARE IN FOUR STATES: MAINE, NEW YORK, UTAH, & VIRGINIA.* RCTAB HAS BEEN APPROVED OR CERTIFIED FOR USE AS PART OF A WHOLE VOTING SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA (HART VERITY 2.4) AND OREGON (CLEAR BALLOT CLEARVOTE 2.5). CLEARVOTE 2.5 IS ALSO CURRENTLY UNDER TESTING WITH THE U.S. ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION (EAC).* IN 2024, RCTAB WAS USED IN 5 ELECTIONS IN JURISDICTIONS REPRESENTING JUST OVER 1.3 MILLION REGISTERED VOTERS.* OVER 1.7 MILLION VOTES HAVE BEEN TABULATED OVER THE LIFE OF RCTAB, WITH ALMOST 800,000 BEING TABULATED IN 2024.* VERSION 2.0 IS CURRENTLY IN THE FINAL PHASE OF PREPARATION AND TESTING. RCVRC IS WORKING WITH SEVERAL VOTING SYSTEM VENDORS REGARDING RCTAB INTEGRATION.

  Expenses $422,268

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

1 May 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.1

Source object

202501229349301735

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