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The Heartland Institute

EIN 36-3309812Research and Public Policy Illinois Mid-sized

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

The mission

What this organization describes

Discovering, developing, and promoting free-market solutions to social and economic problems.

The Heartland Institute is a national, non-partisan research and education organization founded in Chicago in 1984. Heartland's mission is to discover and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. Such solutions include parental choice in education, choice and personal responsibility in health care, market-based approaches to environmental protection, privatization of public services, and deregulation in areas where property rights and markets do a better job than government bureaucracies. The Heartland Institute produces six monthly publications on budget and tax issues, environment and climate, health care reform, information technology and telecommunications, school reform, and finance, insurance, and real estate.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

86.37Overall score
out of 100

81.15Financial score
out of 100

96.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$5,994,969

Total expenses · USD$5,471,048

Program expenses

$4,409,664.69 recorded amount

80.6%

Fundraising expenses

$574,460.04 recorded amount

10.5%

Administrative expenses

$475,981.18 recorded amount

8.7%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.11 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Timothy Huelskamp
Recorded compensation: $105,769.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 1.93%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for The Heartland Institute
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	96.0
`category` Category	Research and Public Policy
`description` Mission & description	The Heartland Institute is a national, non-partisan research and education organization founded in Chicago in 1984. Heartland's mission is to discover and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. Such solutions include parental choice in education, choice and personal responsibility in health care, market-based approaches to environmental protection, privatization of public services, and deregulation in areas where property rights and markets do a better job than government bureaucracies. The Heartland Institute produces six monthly publications on budget and tax issues, environment and climate, health care reform, information technology and telecommunications, school reform, and finance, insurance, and real estate.
`ein` EIN	36-3309812
`tot_exp` Total expenses	5471048.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.087
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.11
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.105
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.8059999999999999
`fscore` Financial score	81.15
`leader` Recorded leader	Timothy Huelskamp
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	105769.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.019299999999999998
`motto` Tagline	Discovering, developing, and promoting free-market solutions to social and economic problems.
`name` Charity name	The Heartland Institute
`tot_rev` Total revenue	5994969.0
`score` Overall score	86.37
`state` State code	IL
`subcategory` Subcategory	Social and Public Policy Research
`size` Source size label	mid
`program_exp` Program expenses	4409664.688
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	574460.0399999999
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	475981.176

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 36-3309812
Source category: Research and Public Policy
Source subcategory: Social and Public Policy Research
Recorded location: Illinois (IL)
Expense-based size: Mid-sized
$3.5M–$13.5M in total expenses · source label: mid

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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.