Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ACCOUNTABILITY LAB INC
ACCOUNTABILITY LAB INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,957,721 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($1,250,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Accountability Lab Inc does
Mission
The accountability lab's mission is to build a new generation of active citizens and responsible leaders around the world. It works towards this mission by supporting change-makers to develop and implement positive ideas for integrity in their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Coalition-building, policy advocacy, fiscal partnershipal actively participates in and builds coalitions at local, national, and international levels. Key 2025 activities include:1. Continued strategic, operational and fiscal support to the al network across the world.2. Leadership in various future of the field conversations and convenings across the ecosystem.3. Fiscal partnership program with 5 new partners.
$2,980,214 spentof which $158,945 as grants$3,498,174 earned by the program67% of program spendingHackcorruption (innovation & anti-corruption technology)since 2022, al has convened innovators across 19 countries and 4 regions to develop 23+ anti-corruption tools, including procurement monitoring systems, beneficial ownership databases, participatory infrastructure tracking tools, and knowledge graphs of national procurement data. In 2025: we reinvested in a few promising organisations to scale existing tools and skills by convening 12 individuals from previous years' cohorts from paraguay, indonesia, bangladesh and mexico.
$776,715 spentof which $111,129 as grants$887,836 earned by the program18% of program spendingCivic strength partners (csp)civic strength partners (csp) - in 2025, accountability lab co-founded civic strength partners (civicstrengthpartners.org), a strategic matchmaking and transition-support initiative created in collaboration with development gateway: an irex venture and digital public. Csp was established in response to a mounting global funding crisis in which thousands of civil society organizations face leadership transitions, political pressures, and the risk of losing critical knowledge, tools, and community trust.
$672,147 spent$1,290,000 earned by the program15% of program spendingAccountability incubator & civic charge (accountapreneurs)civic action teams (civacts)campaigns - integrity icons, voice2rep & film fellowships
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,429,076.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.6M to $6.0M (+278%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 31% · 2020 51% · 2021 56% · 2022 73% · 2023 84% · 2024 83% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ACCOUNTABILITY LAB INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Chris Dunn
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $72k → $573k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ACCOUNTABILITY LAB INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACCOUNTABILITY LAB INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 39% · 2019 54% · 2020 32% · 2021 48% · 2022 56% · 2023 44% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
36% of ACCOUNTABILITY LAB INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ACCOUNTABILITY LAB INC draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $376k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACCOUNTABILITY LAB INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ACCOUNTABILITY LAB INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.9M on record.
- Department of State$5.9M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ACCOUNTABILITY LAB INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACCOUNTABILITY LAB INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACCOUNTABILITY LAB INC?
- ACCOUNTABILITY LAB INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,957,721 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($1,250,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACCOUNTABILITY LAB INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $4,957,721 in grants to ACCOUNTABILITY LAB INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACCOUNTABILITY LAB INC?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACCOUNTABILITY LAB INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing