Florida · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC
FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC (Florida) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,038,122 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($10,891,850). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $43M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Foundation for Government Accountability Inc does
Mission
The foundation's mission is to formulate and promote public polices based on the principles of transparency, the free market, individiual freedom, and limited constitutional government.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Promote welfare and unemployment reform: a project to identify and promote policies that move individuals from dependency to full-time work and allow them to quickly escape poverty or job loss, and policies that reduce fraud in welfare and unemployment programs to protect resources for the truly needy.
$5,677,631 spent$448,037 earned by the program45% of program spendingTransparent & accountable government: research and promote policies to create transparency for regulations and quasi-regulatory actions like official "guidance" that tend to increase the size and cost of government, and to give voters and their representatives more tools to limit costly regulations and their impact on entrepreneurs and families.
$2,575,816 spent$203,265 earned by the program21% of program spendingRestore voter confidence in elections - restore voter confidence in elections by promoting policies that result in transparent and secure elections so that every eligible voter may vote knowing their votes will matter and get counted accurately and quickly.
$1,975,104 spent$155,861 earned by the program16% of program spendingResearch and promote public policies that encourage individual freedom, reduce the cost and regulatory burden of government, and promote economic opportunity for all americans.
$2,288,317 spent$180,577 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,516,868.
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 $8.8M to $12M (+35%).
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.
91% of FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Tarren Bragdon
CEO and president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $125k → $10.0M.
11 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 funders by total. 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
FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY 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
64% 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 FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 40% · 2019 38% · 2020 34% · 2021 45% · 2022 29% · 2023 26% — 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
56% of FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
58% of FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $18M that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 17 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 270 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 270 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 12 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY 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 FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC (Florida) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,038,122 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($10,891,850). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $43,038,122 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC?
- Donors Trust Inc is the largest funder on record, with $10,891,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 59 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