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Alliance Defending Freedom

EIN 54-1660459Human and Civil Rights Arizona Large

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Defending our first liberty

Founded in 1994 by 35 evangelical Christian ministry leaders, the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) was conceived as an organization that would uniquely preserve and protect our first liberty - to defend the right of people of faith to hear and speak the Truth of the Gospel. Through strategy and coordination, world-class training for lawyers and law students, case and project funding, and direct litigation, our nation-shaping successes have begun to help secure and reclaim the most fundamental rights that our Constitution was designed to guarantee. Through the grace of God, legal precedents have been set and much liberty has been reclaimed. We are humbled to have been involved with our allies in 31 victories before the U.S. Supreme Court, and hundreds more in the lower courts.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

86.60Overall score
out of 100

81.05Financial score
out of 100

100.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$51,173,952

Total expenses · USD$50,304,647

Program expenses

$38,432,750.31 recorded amount

76.4%

Fundraising expenses

$7,746,915.64 recorded amount

15.4%

Administrative expenses

$4,074,676.41 recorded amount

8.1%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.16 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Alan Sears
Recorded compensation: $405,080.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 0.80%

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All 23 original fields for Alliance Defending Freedom
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	100.0
`category` Category	Human and Civil Rights
`description` Mission & description	Founded in 1994 by 35 evangelical Christian ministry leaders, the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) was conceived as an organization that would uniquely preserve and protect our first liberty - to defend the right of people of faith to hear and speak the Truth of the Gospel. Through strategy and coordination, world-class training for lawyers and law students, case and project funding, and direct litigation, our nation-shaping successes have begun to help secure and reclaim the most fundamental rights that our Constitution was designed to guarantee. Through the grace of God, legal precedents have been set and much liberty has been reclaimed. We are humbled to have been involved with our allies in 31 victories before the U.S. Supreme Court, and hundreds more in the lower courts.
`ein` EIN	54-1660459
`tot_exp` Total expenses	50304647.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.081
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.16
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.154
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.764
`fscore` Financial score	81.05
`leader` Recorded leader	Alan Sears
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	405080.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.008
`motto` Tagline	Defending our first liberty
`name` Charity name	Alliance Defending Freedom
`tot_rev` Total revenue	51173952.0
`score` Overall score	86.6
`state` State code	AZ
`subcategory` Subcategory	Advocacy and Education
`size` Source size label	big
`program_exp` Program expenses	38432750.308
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	7746915.638
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	4074676.407

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 54-1660459
Source category: Human and Civil Rights
Source subcategory: Advocacy and Education
Recorded location: Arizona (AZ)
Expense-based size: Large
Above $13.5M in total expenses · source label: big

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.