- Revenue 2025
- $1,443,252
- Expenses 2025
- $1,876,405
Program services were 96.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- P60
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- 444 N CAPITOL ST NW STE 612 # 371
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).
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
We provide grants for charitable, educational, and research projects supporting UBI, as well as grants providing UBI to relieve poverty, reduce economic insecurity and inequality, and strengthen communities.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Our vision is a world of economic freedom for all. Our mission is to support ambitious projects that help realize a foundation of unconditional universal basic income (UBI) through research, storytelling, and implementation.
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The Bootstraps docuseries and Boots on the Ground campaign aim to educate the public and create meaningful social impact around basic income and related economic issues. In 2025, the project advanced production of the docuseries and laid the groundwork for its broader impact campaign. Through ethical storytelling, nationwide screenings, educational programs, podcasts, social media, and community engagement, the project seeks to reach broad audiences, encourage informed public dialogue, and increase awareness and understanding of basic income and its potential impact on communities.
Expenses $1,028,518 · Grants $1,023,000
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In 2025, Comingle made significant progress toward launching its platform. After addressing complex engineering, financial, legal, and compliance requirements, Comingle successfully completed two phases of beta testing: a play money beta using real bank integrations to simulate transfers and a real money beta enabling actual transfers among a small group of testers. These milestones provided valuable real-world insights into the platforms user experience and potential. In 2026, Comingle plans to expand beta testing and work toward launching a larger pilot program by year-end, while continuing to prioritize its public-benefit mission and ethical governance.
Expenses $667,518 · Grants $662,000
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UBIdata is an online knowledge repository, initiated and coordinated by BIEN, focused on systematically collecting, processing, and disseminating key information about basic income pilots, proposals and policy debates around the world. Our main objective is to provide a key resource for policy-makers,researchers, journalists and civil society organisations and advocacy networks interested in understanding, debating and working towards introducing basic income.
Expenses $65,460 · Grants $65,000
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Our Basic Income Financial Assistance Program provides direct, unconditional, recurring cash assistance to individuals experiencing financial hardship arising from systemic conditions including, but not limited to, involvement in the criminal justice system, chronic illness, aging out of foster care, displacement, disability, and other circumstances that impede economic self-sufficiency. The purpose of the Program is twofold: (a) to relieve poverty and promote the general welfare of individuals in financial need by providing recurring unconditional cash transfers, and (b) to further ITSAs charitable and educational mission by demonstrating the real-world effects of unconditional basic income on individuals facing barriers to economic stability. The Program is currently providing $300 per week to a man who was released from incarceration after almost 30 years. After a year of receiving payments, he has remained out of prison and is in the process of obtaining the training and certifications needed to pursue his desired career as a truck driver.
Expenses $31,074 · Grants $7,200
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Income Movement's mission is to build community-based coalitions and the grassroots advocacy network necessary to educate the public and elected leaders about the value and impact of basic income. We coordinate and support the people-powered movement to grow basic income from a radical idea to widespread public acceptance and gain a national program in the next decade. The support was provided to co-sponsor Income Movement's 2025 BIG Conference.
Expenses $10,000 · Grants $10,000
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Officers and directors · 2025
As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Scott Santens
President & CEO
- Total calculated
- $60,617
- From this org
- $60,617
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Lauren Ruettimann
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Conrad Yaney
Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Leah Hamilton
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Joshua Riddick
Foundation Mgr.
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Katherine Moussouris
Foundation Mgr.
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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
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2025
- Revenue
- $1,443,252
- Expenses
- $1,876,405
- Contributions
- $1,431,963
- Grants paid
- $1,767,200
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2024
- Revenue
- $1,527,890
- Expenses
- $881,538
- Contributions
- $1,521,927
- Grants paid
- $867,200
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2023
- Tax period
- 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023
- Principal officer
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Scott Santens
- Mailing address
- 254 Chapman Rd Ste 208 11553Newark DE 19702
- Website
- https://www.itsafoundation.org/
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.
Grants made
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Bootstrapsfilm LLC
$1,023,000
2025 Refer SCH O
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Comingle Inc
$662,000
2025 Refer SCH O
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Bootstrapsfilm LLC
$544,200
2024 Funding to support the post production of an educational docuseries promoting awareness and understanding of unconditional basic income
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Comingle Inc
$323,000
2024 Development of a software platform to facilitate the distribution of unconditional basic income to directly reduce poverty and inequality
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$10,000
2025 Refer SCH O
Grants received
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FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND
$1,030,000
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.