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FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION

EIN 45-2992162 SAN DIEGO, CA

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Revenue 2023
$220,545
Expenses 2023
$226,287

Program services were 88.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R40
Classification
1000
Street
2700 ADAMS AVE STE 202

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 202). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

TO CONDUCT INDEPENDENT RESEARCH, CONDUCT EDUCATION AND HOLD EDUCATION MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES TO EDUCATE AND INFORM VOTERS AND PUBLIC OFFICIALS ON CRITICAL ISSUES AND TO GRANT SCHOLARSHIPS TO HELP ACCOMPLISH THIS PURPOSE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO CONDUCT INDEPENDENT RESEARCH, CONDUCT EDUCATION AND HOLD EDUCATION MEETINGS AND (CONT'D ON SCH O) CONFERENCES TO EDUCATE AND INFORM VOTERS AND PUBLIC OFFICIALS ON CRITICAL ISSUES AND TO GRANT SCHOLARSHIPS TO HELP ACCOMPLISH THIS PURPOSE.

  • THE ORGANIZATION IS CO-PUBLISHER OF INDEPENDENT VOTER NEWS, AN OPEN NEWS PLATFORM FOR INDEPENDENT-MINDED AUTHORS AND READERS PROVIDING UNFILTERED POLITICAL NEWS AND POLICY ANALYSIS FROM ACROSS THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM. SINCE 2008 INV.US HAS PUBLISHED THOUSANDS OF ARTICLES FROM JOURNALISTS AND INDIVIDUALS OF DIFFERING POLITICAL TENDENCIES REACHING MORE THAN 500,000 READERS EVERY MONTH PROVIDING NONPARTISAN EDUCATION TO VOTERS AND ENCOURAGING CONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE AMONG WRITERS AND READERS ACROSS THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM. IN PURSUIT OF OUR MISSION OF VOTER EDUCATION, WE CONDUCT ONGOING STUDIES TO EXPLORE EFFECTIVE WAYS TO BROADEN THE OUTREACH TO VOTERS IN UNDERSERVED AREAS, WE CONDUCT POLLS TO DETERMINE THE BEST METHODS TO GIVE VOTERS ACCURATE INFORMATION REGARDING THEIR VOTING RIGHTS AN WE PROMOTE INITIATIVES THAT EXPAND THE VOTING POPULATION.

    Expenses $201,013 · Grants $25,000

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Dan Howle

    CFO/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $120,000
    From this org
    $120,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Beth Reno Herms

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $10,000
    From this org
    $10,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steve Peace

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stephen Walker

    DIRECTOR (THRU DEC 2023)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dan Schnur

    DIRECTOR (THRU DEC 2023)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Regina Evans

    DIRECTOR (THRU DEC 2023)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Floyd Mori

    DIRECTOR (THRU DEC 2023)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Laiza Negrete

    DIRECTOR (AS OF JAN 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mario Munoz

    DIRECTOR (AS OF JAN 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $220,545
    Expenses
    $226,287
    Contributions
    $220,545
    Grants paid
    $25,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $229,672
    Expenses
    $410,730
    Contributions
    $229,672
    Grants paid
    $31,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $242,295
    Expenses
    $147,923
    Assets (EOY)
    $262,085

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $541,410
    Expenses
    $473,419
    Assets (EOY)
    $167,713

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.