- Revenue 2024
- $197,791
- Expenses 2024
- $83,395
Program services were 33.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- L80Z
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 8002
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 · 2024
Mission
THE COUNCIL IS ORGANIZED EXCLUSIVELY AS A NONPARTISAN, NONPROFIT EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION THAT WORKS TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE TRANSPARENCY AND OPEN, ACCESSIBLE AND ACCOUNTABLE STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN IOWA. THE COUNCIL PURSUES ITS MISSION THROUGH EDUCATION OF CITIZENS, JOURNALISTS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES, THROUGH ADVOCACY INITIATIVES IN THE IOWA LEGISLATURE AND IN STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS.
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THE IOWA FOI COUNCIL IS A COALITION OF JOURNALISTS, LIBRARIANS, LAWYERS, EDUCATORS AND OTHER IOWANS DEVOTED TO OPEN GOVERNMENT.
Expenses $27,617 · Revenue $28,625
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 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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RANDY EVANS
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $39,996
- From this org
- $39,996
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
DEBBIE ANSELM
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DAVE BUSIEK
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ADAM CARROS
FIRST VICE P
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JASON CLAYWORTH
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TOM CULLEN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DAVE DREESZEN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MICHAEL GARTNER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
WILLIAM GERHARD
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JEFF HOEGER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CAROL HUNTER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ZACK KUCHARSKI
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MICHAEL LELAND
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TOM MARTIN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TREVIS MAYFIELD
SECOND VICE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SCOTT MCFETRIDGE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MIKE MENDENHALL
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ANDREW MERTENS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LYLE MULLER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
KYLE OCKER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DYLAN PARKER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SUSAN PATTERSON PLANK
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MARI RADTKE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LISA REYNOLDS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ALLISON SMITH
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
The first 25 listed. 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
-
2024
- Revenue
- $197,791
- Expenses
- $83,395
- Contributions
- $136,841
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $151,504
- Expenses
- $58,167
- Contributions
- $79,650
- Grants paid
- not reported
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 2022
- Tax period
- 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022
- Principal officer
- Randy Evans
- Mailing address
- PO Box 8002Des Moines IA 50301
- Website
- www.IFOIC.org
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 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
No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.
Grants received
-
FAEGRE BAKER DANIELS FOUNDATION
$24,042
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
2022 UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT
-
2024 UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT
-
2023 UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT
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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.