Form 990 for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$741,005

Total expenses

$996,047

Contributions and grants received

$704,056

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$34,487

Other revenue

$2,462

Total assets, end of year

$1,280,502

Total liabilities, end of year

$24,121

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,256,381

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$777,445

Management and general expenses

$161,018

Fundraising expenses

$57,584

Program service expenses (Part III)

$777,445

Program services were 78.1% 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 · 2025

• 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. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)RCV WAS USED IN 17 CITIES AND COUNTIES ACROSS NINE STATES TO ELECT LOCAL OFFICIALS IN 2025. 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. WE PARTNERED WITH REDONDO BEACH, CA, AND CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, TO SUPPORT THEIR RCV IMPLEMENTATION FOR THE MARCH 2025 AND JUNE 2025 ELECTIONS, RESPECTIVELY. WE ADVISED EACH CITY'S STAFF ON MANY ASPECTS OF THEIR RCV IMPLEMENTATION, INCLUDING LOGIC AND ACCURACY TESTING, AUDIT AND RECOUNT PROCESSES, RESULTS DISPLAYS, VOTER EDUCATION, AND RCTAB.* STATES IMPACTED (24): ALASKA, ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, CONNECTICUT, GEORGIA, HAWAII, IDAHO, ILLINOIS, MAINE, MARYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, MINNESOTA, MISSOURI, MONTANA, NEW YORK, OHIO, OREGON, PENNSYLVANIA, UTAH, VERMONT, VIRGINIA, WASHINGTON, & WISCONSIN* CITIES IMPACTED (5): ARDEN (DE), CHARLOTTESVILLE (VA), REDONDO BEACH (CA), ST. LOUIS PARK (MN), ST. PAUL (MN) RESOURCES RELEASED IN 2025:* NEW TOOLS: PRCV AND SINGLE-WINNER RCV HAND COUNT TOOLKITS AND RCV BLUEPRINT. THE HAND COUNT TOOLKITS ARE DESIGNED TO HELP ELECTION OFFICIALS PREPARE FOR RCV IMPLEMENTATION BY PROVIDING A DETAILED HAND COUNT PROCEDURE FOR TRAINING AND BY HELPING THEM DESIGN RECOUNT AND/OR AUDIT PROTOCOLS FOR RCV. RCV BLUEPRINT IS AN ELECTION ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE TO HELP BUILD A COMPREHENSIVE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN BASED ON A JURISDICTION'S EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE.* REPORT UPDATES: RCV MAPS. THIS IS THE RCVRC'S PRIMARY RESEARCH PROJECT, COMPRISING 51 INDIVIDUAL REPORTS. THIS PROJECT IS A STATE-BY-STATE ANALYSIS OF THE RCV CAPABILITY OF VOTING EQUIPMENT IN EACH STATE AND DC.* WE ALSO MAINTAINED OUR EXISTING RCV IMPLEMENTATION TRACKING TOOL, RCV ELECTION IN A BOX TOOL, AND RCV FACT SHEETS. 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.* OUR PODCAST, RCV CLIPS, CONTINUES TO COVER RCV ELECTION ADMINISTRATION TOPICS RANGING FROM DRAFTING LEGISLATION TO ELECTION CERTIFICATION TO BEST PRACTICES LEARNED FROM RUNNING RCV ELECTIONS. RCV CLIPS HAS HAD 12,900 PODCAST DOWNLOADS OVER 8 YEARS. WE RELEASE 9 EPISODES ANNUALLY USING A SEASONAL FORMAT, SHOWCASING GUESTS LOCATED ACROSS THE COUNTRY, FROM ALASKA TO WASHINGTON, DC.ALL OF THE RESOURCES REFERENCED ABOVE ARE AVAILABLE ON THE ORGANIZATION'S WEBSITE: WWW.RCVRESOURCES.ORG.

  Expenses $411,445

• EARC PROVIDES ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT RESOURCES AVAILABLE IN THE ELECTION WORLD, RCTAB. RCTAB IS A FEDERALLY TESTED 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 RCV IMPLEMENTATION.(CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)* RCTAB HAS BEEN APPROVED OR CERTIFIED FOR USE AS STANDALONE SOFTWARE IN FOUR STATES: MAINE, NEW YORK, UTAH, & VIRGINIA.* RCTAB HAS ALSO 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). CLEAR BALLOT'S CLEARVOTE 2.5 WAS CERTIFIED BY THE U.S. ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION (EAC) TO THE VOLUNTARY VOTING SYSTEM GUIDELINES IN NOVEMBER 2025.* IN 2025, RCTAB WAS USED IN FIVE SEPARATE JURISDICTIONS AND TABULATED OVER 5.1 MILLION TOTAL VOTES. RCTAB WAS USED FOR THE FIRST TIME ACROSS THREE JURISDICTIONS: ST. PAUL, MN; CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA; AND REDONDO BEACH, CA, MARKING ITS FIRST USE IN MINNESOTA AND CALIFORNIA.* VERSION 2.0 WAS RELEASED IN THE SUMMER OF 2025, FOLLOWING MORE THAN TWO YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT. IT ENABLES MULTI-VENDOR RCV TABULATION, ALLOWING STATES WITH MULTIPLE VOTING SYSTEM VENDORS TO MORE EASILY CENTRALIZE CAST VOTE RECORDS (CVRS) FOR TABULATION. THIS FUNCTIONALITY INCREASES THE NUMBER OF STATES (28) CAPABLE OF RUNNING STATEWIDE RCV ELECTIONS USING EXISTING VOTING EQUIPMENT.IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE ABOUT RCTAB OR DOWNLOADING IT FOR USE, PLEASE VISIT THE ORGANIZATION'S WEBSITE: WWW.RCVRESOURCES.ORG.

  Expenses $366,000

As filed on the 2025 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

2025

Filed

13 April 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.1

Source object

202641119349300424

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