Nonprofit · EIN 20-0972582
PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC
Tax-exempt · BUFFALO, NY 14222
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 31, 2025 | 990 | $1,384,707 | $727,293 | $657,414 | $1,813,540 | $10,947 | $1,802,593 |
| March 31, 2024 | 990 | $904,250 | $629,679 | $274,571 | $1,172,247 | $27,068 | $1,145,179 |
| March 31, 2023 | 990 | $826,870 | $644,567 | $182,303 | $875,979 | $5,371 | $870,608 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended March 31, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $1,187,072
- Program service revenue
- $146,797
- Investment income
- $0
- Other revenue
- $50,838
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $0
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $86,642
- Other salaries and wages
- $342,719
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $503,330
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Accounting fees
- $11,850
- Depreciation
- $6
- Program services (functional)
- $664,325
- Management and general (functional)
- $50,375
- Fundraising (functional)
- $12,593
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $1,172,247
- Total assets, end of year
- $1,813,540
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $10,947
- Net assets, end of year
- $1,802,593
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $1,802,593
- Gross receipts
- $1,384,707
- Employees
- 5
- Volunteers
- 1,500
- Year formed
- 2008
- State of legal domicile
- NY
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended March 31, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIN ARMSTRONG | Executive Dir. Officer | 40 | $86,642 |
| MAYA RAGSDALE | BOARD CHAIR Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| ANTHONY ARMSTRONG | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| ELLEN DAVID FRIEDMAN | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| ZAC CHAPMAN | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
990 for the year ended March 31, 2024: 6 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIN ARMSTRONG | Executive Dir. Officer | 40 | $79,500 |
| MAYA RAGSDALE | President Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| BRITTANY ALSTON | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| ANTHONY ARMSTRONG | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| ELLEN DAVID FRIEDMAN | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| ZAC CHAPMAN | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
990 for the year ended March 31, 2023: 6 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIN ARMSTRONG | Executive Dir. Officer | 40 | $79,096 |
| MAYA RAGSDALE | President Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| BRITTANY ALSTON | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| ANTHONY ARMSTRONG | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| ELLEN DAVID FRIEDMAN | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| ZAC CHAPMAN | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 266 ELMWOOD AVENUE 191, BUFFALO, NY 14222-2202
- Signed the 990
- MAYA RAGSDALE, President
- Phone
- (716) 239-8305
- Website
- PUBLIC-ACCOUNTABILITY.ORG
- Return prepared by
- SKROBACZ & CO CPAS PC
Mission
THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE CONDUCTS RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES THAT BRING TRANSPARENCY TO INFLUENCE PUBLIC SECTOR AND PRIVATE SECTOR INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR KEY RELATIONSHIP.
Program accomplishments
- TECH: PAI MAINTAINS LITTLESIS.ORG, AN OPEN, PUBLIC DATABASE AND RESEARCH PLATFORM THAT BRINGS TRANSPARENCY TO INFLUENTIAL NETWORKS IN THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS. THE DATABASE AGGREGATES PUBLIC INFORMATION ON OVER 407,000 INFLUENTIAL INDIVIDUALS AND INSTITUTIONS, RANGING FROM PUBLIC OFFICIALS TO LARGE CORPORATIONS, AND NEARLY 1,700,000 RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THEM, RANGING FROM EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIPS TO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS. VOLUNTEER EDITORS CONTRIBUTE WELL-COURSE DATA TO LITTLESIS AND BUILD MAPS OF POWER NETWORKS USING OUR DATA VISUALIZATION TOOLS. IN 2022-2023, LITTLESIS' USER BASE GREW BY 2,000 NEW USERS WHO MAPPED OUT OVER 69,000 NEW RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ENTITIES ON THE SITE. LITTLESIS TECH IS CITED REGULARLY BY ACTIVISTS, RESEARCHERS, JOURNALISTS, AND PUBLIC INTEREST ORGANIZATIONS. THIS TECH SUPPORTS GROUNDBREAKING INVESTIGATIONS AND HIGH-IMPACT GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGNS.Expenses $664,325
- RESEARCH: PAI'S RESEARCH PROGRAM INVESTIGATES ISSUES OF CORPORATE AND GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTANILITY AND BRINGS TRANSPARENCY TO THE ROLE OF POWERFUL PUBLIC SECTOR AND PRIVATE SECTOR INSTITUTIONS IN SHAPING PUBLIC POLICY. PAI RELEASES RESEARCH IN THE FORM OF REPORTS, ARTICLES, INFOGRAPHICS, AND DATASETS. PAI'S RESEARCH HAS GARNERED SIGNIFICANT MEDIA COVERAGE, PROMPTED ACCOUNTABILITY MEASURES AND PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS,AND INFORMED GROUNDBREAKING CAMPAIGNS. PAI'S PRIMARY FOCUS AREAS INCLUDE THE FINANCE INDUSTRY AND THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY, AND CORPORATE POWER ON THE REGIONAL AND STATE LEVEL. IN 2022-2023, OUR RESEARCH TOUCHED ON ISSUES INCLUDING INVESTOR-OWNED UTILITIES, FOSSIL FUEL FINANCE, WALL STREET SPECULATION, THE REVOLVING DOOR BETWEEN BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE SUBSIDIES, AND MONEY IN POLITICS. OUR RESEARCH EARNS MAJOR MEDIA COVERAGE AND HELPS DRIVE COMPAIGN STRATEGY AND WINS.
- TRAINING: PAI TRAINS JOURNALISTS, ASTIVISTS, AND RESEACHERS IN HOW TO CONDUCT POWER RESEARCH USING LITTLESIS.ORG AND OTHER TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES. THE GOAL OF THIS WORK IS TO CULTIVATE MORE MOVEMENT CAPACITY TO RESEARCH AND CHALLENGE INFLUTIAL NETWORKS IN THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR. WE CONDUCT TRAININGS IN PERSON AND ONLINE VIA WEBINAR, AND OFFER THEM INDEPENDENTLY AND IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OTHER PUBLIC INTERESTED ORGANIZATIONS. IN 2022-2023, WE CONDCUTED A NUMBER OF TRAININGS ON LITTLESIS TECH TOOLS INCLUDING HOW TO EDIT THE RESEARCH DATABASE, HOW TO RESEARCH PUBLICLY-HELD CORPORATIONS, RESEARCH TECHNIQUES FOR PRIVATE COMPANIES AND NON-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, AND HOW TO RESEARCH POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS.
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in March, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | March 31, 2026 | August 17, 2026 | Not on file |
| 2024 | March 31, 2025 | August 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | March 31, 2024 | August 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 20-0972582
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 2004
- Accounting year ends
- March
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Public and societal benefit (W052)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $1,813,540
- Income (IRS master file)
- $1,384,707
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | March 2025 | $1,384,707 | $727,293 | $1,813,540 | XML |
| 990 | March 2024 | $904,250 | $629,679 | $1,172,247 | XML |
| 990 | March 2023 | $826,870 | $644,567 | $875,979 | XML |
| 990 | March 2022 | $771,096 | $621,630 | $698,226 | IRS |
| 990 | March 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | March 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | March 2019 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | March 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 20-0972582).
Questions about PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC
- What is the EIN of PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC is 20-0972582.
- Is PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2004.
- Are donations to PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending March 31, 2026) is due August 17, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended March 2025.
- Who are the officers and directors of PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC?
- The 990 for the year ended March 31, 2025 lists 5 people; 1 received compensation from the organization, the highest $86,642 (GIN ARMSTRONG, Executive Dir.).
- How much revenue does PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC have?
- On its 990 for the year ended March 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $1,384,707, expenses of $727,293 and total assets of $1,813,540 at year end.
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