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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by FAIRVOTE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$473,355
Total expenses
$247,978
Contributions and grants received
$472,766
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$589
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$209,725
Total liabilities, end of year
$72,159
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$137,566
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$184,825
Management and general expenses
$25,672
Fundraising expenses
$37,481
Program service expenses (Part III)
$184,825

Program services were 74.5% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $0

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $0

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $0

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $130,000

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $24,884

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $317,882

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $27,510

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $589 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $589

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $78,027 · program services $66,350 · management and general $4,971 · fundraising $6,706

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $36,041 · program services $28,238 · management and general $6,086 · fundraising $1,717

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $1,502 · program services $445 · management and general $616 · fundraising $441

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $6,887 · program services $5,710 · management and general $668 · fundraising $509

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $6,393 · program services $0 · management and general $6,393 · fundraising $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $24,112 · fundraising $24,112

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $67,100 · program services $65,396 · management and general $1,704 · fundraising $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $2,338 · program services $2,177 · management and general $121 · fundraising $40

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $4,832 · program services $3,845 · management and general $185 · fundraising $802

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $6,409 · program services $4,094 · management and general $691 · fundraising $1,624

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $4,082 · program services $3,229 · management and general $497 · fundraising $356

  • 17 · Travel

    total $2,099 · program services $1,931 · management and general $155 · fundraising $13

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $2,752 · program services $2,140 · management and general $552 · fundraising $60

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $1,387 · program services $0 · management and general $1,387 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $2,227 · program services $1,270 · management and general $649 · fundraising $308

  • 24a · Other expenses: Service Charges

    total $1,548 · program services $0 · management and general $771 · fundraising $777

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $242 · program services $0 · management and general $226 · fundraising $16

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $6,757 · end of year $107,282

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $1,164 · end of year $1,166

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    end of year $26,000

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $245 · end of year $245

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $5,376 · end of year $959

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $10,210

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $7,678

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $3,281 · end of year $2,532

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    beginning of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $20,000 · end of year $71,541

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $85,441 · end of year $72,159

  • 22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

    beginning of year $39,000 · end of year $0

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $192 · end of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year -$87,810 · end of year -$489,734

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $627,300

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

FairVote Minnesota Foundation promotes better democracy through improving the voting system across the state. We provide research and education about the effects our voting system has on the quality of democracy and advocate for Ranked Choice Voting or other systems that promote greater competition, participation, majority rule, and proportional representation.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Provide education, outreach, research and advocacy to build knowledge and awareness about voting methods in public elections and how they may be improved.

  • Education: FairVote Minnesota hosted or tabled at several community and other field events educating voters and elected officials about RCV, including the Minnehaha Art Fair, the League of Minnesota Cities Annual Conference, the Twin Cities Pride Festival, Open Streets East Lake, Bloomington Pride, St. Cloud Pride, League of Women Voters meetings, the Association of Minnesota Counties Conference, and the Minnesota State Fair. FairVote MN's Director of Communications and Public Affairs, Erin Zamoff, gave a TED Talk on RCV at TEDx Edina, and Executive Director Jeanne Massey was invited to present at the National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers (NANR) Summit in San Diego.

    Expenses $182,275

  • Fundraising: We organized several online fundraising campaigns to support our work, and hosted three key events focused on strengthening and protecting our democracy, including a summer Rank Your Wine event with legislative champions, Ranked Choice Voting: Pushing Back Extremism & Protecting Our Rights with special guests Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan Senate Minority Leader Melisa Lopez Franzen, and a year-end event featuring Congressman Dean Phillips, Congresswoman Mary Peltola, Senator-Elect Kelly Morrison, and Representative Cedrick Frazier.

    Expenses $2,550

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Jeanne Massey

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $226,116
    From this org
    $226,116
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    13.92 + 26.08 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $226,116
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $226,116

  • Siyad Abdullahi

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • Matt Furman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • Tom Horner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • Jim Dorsey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • Kim Nelson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • Jack Uldrich

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • Mike Osterholm

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • Steve Kelley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • Michael Minta

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • Zaylore Stout

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • Emily Crabtree

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • Maureen Reed

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 1.5 related

  • Jim Watkins

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • Stephen Imholte

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • Roann Cramer

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

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

Answered yes

None.

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

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.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
19 May 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202341709349301014

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