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Government Accountability Project

EIN 52-1343924Human and Civil Rights District of Columbia Small

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

The mission

What this organization describes

Defending whistleblowers since 1977

Founded in 1977, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) is the nation's leading whistleblower organization. GAP promotes accountability by advocating occupational free speech, litigating whistleblower cases, publicizing whistleblower concerns, and developing policy and legal reforms of whistleblower laws. GAP's mission is to protect the public interest by promoting government and corporate accountability through advancing occupational free speech and ethical conduct, defending whistleblowers, and empowering citizen activists. GAP's major program initiatives focus on both government and corporate accountability related to nuclear oversight, food and drug safety, worker health and safety, international reform and national security.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

87.63Overall score
out of 100

83.97Financial score
out of 100

93.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$2,974,452

Total expenses · USD$2,396,423

Program expenses

$1,950,688.32 recorded amount

81.4%

Fundraising expenses

$220,470.92 recorded amount

9.2%

Administrative expenses

$222,867.34 recorded amount

9.3%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.09 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Louis Clark
Recorded compensation: $115,433.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 4.81%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Government Accountability Project
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	93.0
`category` Category	Human and Civil Rights
`description` Mission & description	Founded in 1977, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) is the nation's leading whistleblower organization. GAP promotes accountability by advocating occupational free speech, litigating whistleblower cases, publicizing whistleblower concerns, and developing policy and legal reforms of whistleblower laws. GAP's mission is to protect the public interest by promoting government and corporate accountability through advancing occupational free speech and ethical conduct, defending whistleblowers, and empowering citizen activists. GAP's major program initiatives focus on both government and corporate accountability related to nuclear oversight, food and drug safety, worker health and safety, international reform and national security.
`ein` EIN	52-1343924
`tot_exp` Total expenses	2396423.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.09300000000000001
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.09
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.092
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.8140000000000001
`fscore` Financial score	83.97
`leader` Recorded leader	Louis Clark
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	115433.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0481
`motto` Tagline	Defending whistleblowers since 1977
`name` Charity name	Government Accountability Project
`tot_rev` Total revenue	2974452.0
`score` Overall score	87.63
`state` State code	DC
`subcategory` Subcategory	Advocacy and Education
`size` Source size label	small
`program_exp` Program expenses	1950688.3220000002
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	220470.916
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	222867.33900000004

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 52-1343924
Source category: Human and Civil Rights
Source subcategory: Advocacy and Education
Recorded location: District of Columbia (DC)
Expense-based size: Small
Under $3.5M in total expenses · source label: small

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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.