Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICANS FOR INFORMED DEMOCRACY
AMERICANS FOR INFORMED DEMOCRACY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,558 to it, the largest being THE EURASIA FOUNDATION ($43,685). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $78k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $69k
- Net assets
- $-40007
What Americans for Informed Democracy does
Mission
Americans for Informed Democracy amplifies the story, voice and power of youth to make change louder around our most urgent global challenges.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Global scholar is a leadership accelerator program for youth, providing education around global issues, leadership skills training, and sightseeing in washington d.c.
$67,784 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $67,784.
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 2020 to 2021, from $110k to $172k (+57%).
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.
7% of AMERICANS FOR INFORMED DEMOCRACY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Karen Showalter
Co-chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $44k → $25k.
From the IRS filings of AMERICANS FOR INFORMED DEMOCRACY’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
AMERICANS FOR INFORMED DEMOCRACY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICANS FOR INFORMED DEMOCRACY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of AMERICANS FOR INFORMED DEMOCRACY's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
AMERICANS FOR INFORMED DEMOCRACY has grown faster than half of the 2,277 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,277 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICANS FOR INFORMED DEMOCRACY
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.
Public support
100%
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 AMERICANS FOR INFORMED DEMOCRACY: 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 AMERICANS FOR INFORMED DEMOCRACY?
- AMERICANS FOR INFORMED DEMOCRACY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,558 to it, the largest being THE EURASIA FOUNDATION ($43,685). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICANS FOR INFORMED DEMOCRACY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $68,558 in grants to AMERICANS FOR INFORMED DEMOCRACY.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICANS FOR INFORMED DEMOCRACY?
- THE EURASIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $43,685 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICANS FOR INFORMED DEMOCRACY 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.
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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 2 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing