2017-03-06T12:37:44-08:00 2016-06-30 Crosby & Kaneda CPAs 1970 Broadway STE 930 Oakland CA 94612 990 2015-07-01 331094233 MapLight MAPL 5108680894 2223 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley CA 94704 Daniel Newman President 2017-03-06 true Adele Kaneda P01664922 5108352727 2015 2021-01-29 14:40:06Z Daniel Newman 2223 Shattuck Ave Berkeley CA 94704 3038742 false false X www.maplight.org X 2006 CA MapLight reveals money's influence on U.S. politics, and promotes government transparency, through research and education. 5 5 29 12 0 1900327 2836949 180025 192098 4149 5180 3478 4515 2087979 3038742 12750 0 1505199 1881967 38000 1178 256625 333512 574924 1876711 2470819 211268 567923 1904207 2566373 107368 201611 1796839 2364762 X MapLight reveals money's influence on politics. true false 1038685 12750 Voter's Edge, MapLight's online election guide, provides voters with the nonpartisan information they need to vote with confidence. For the 2016 elections, MapLight expanded our successful California pilot to Illinois and New York, providing more than one in five Americans with meaningful information on every race on their individual ballots, down to the local level, in time for the primaries in each state. We also made significant improvements to the usability and accessibility of the site, including the addition of a professionally translated Spanish-language site and a feature called "My List" that lets users save their ballot choices for later, as well as offering co-branded subdomains for media outlets and other partners to increase distribution. Voter's Edge was used by over half a million people during the 2016 primaries. 91% of users responding to our site survey indicated that the site was useful to them, 83% reported more confidence in their voting choices, and 73% said they would vote for more offices and leave fewer blank choices on their ballots because of information they found on Voter's Edge. 984461 192098 MapLight reveals money's influence on politics. Our groundbreaking transparency website combines campaign contribution data with how every legislator votes on every bill, providing citizens and journalists with the transparency tools to hold politicians accountable. Since 2009, our findings illustrating the impact of political money on the issues affecting citizens everyday lives have reached over 350 million people through TV, radio, magazines, newspapers, blogs, and other websites. In the last year, our data was central to a number of groundbreaking stories, including exposs on prescription drug prices, President Obamas Clean Power Plan, NFL safety issues, gun control, the Paris climate talks, soda taxes, and more. We launched Dark Money Watch, an innovative website to promote media coverage and raise public awareness of dark money in U.S. elections. We teamed up with Iowa Pays the Price, a bipartisan grassroots advocacy effort, to bring the need for money and politics reform home to Iowans in time for the 2016 caucus, providing custom research on money in politics affects everyday Iowans. We also partnered with the California Secretary of State to create Power Search, a new search tool making it easier than ever for the public to get a clear picture of the campaign contributions and independent expenditures behind California elections. 2023146 true true false true false false false false false false true false false false false true true false false false false false false false false false false true false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 8 0 true 29 true false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false false false false X 5 5 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false CA X X Irene Litherland 5108680894 2223 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley CA 94704 Doug Edwards Co-Chair/Sect'y 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Melanie Sloan Co-Chair/Treas. 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Krishna Bharat Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Jim Heerwagen Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Shel Kaplan Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Jan Masaoka Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 John O'Farrell Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Daniel Newman President 40.00 0.00 X 196370 0 7024 Pamela Behrsin V-P Communications 40.00 0.00 X 111582 0 1690 307952 8714 2 false true false 0 2836949 2836949 Fees 192098 192098 192098 5180 5180 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Miscellaneous 4515 4515 4515 3038742 192098 9695 12750 12750 0 0 0 238959 143375 38233 57351 0 1375228 1162541 92429 120258 17195 16149 544 502 130561 111109 11192 8260 120024 98394 8518 13112 0 4735 4735 8000 8000 0 1178 1178 0 200164 194620 2182 3362 13867 5664 8203 111968 85063 5772 21133 40477 40135 141 201 0 70192 59151 4345 6696 55771 47459 3565 4747 0 14625 7975 6650 0 0 15967 13055 1137 1775 12100 8248 3609 243 Staff development 16031 11267 888 3876 Dues, licenses, service fees 7152 15 1065 6072 Publications 3576 1441 926 1209 Miscellaneous 299 299 0 2470819 2023146 191048 256625 215873 1031520 903916 909014 675141 490478 45259 47505 0 0 0 0 28447 36570 79591 40041 26171 39550 0 0 0 0 9400 11736 1904207 2566373 107368 201611 107368 201611 X 1095987 971685 700852 1393077 1796839 2364762 1904207 2566373 567923 X false true X true false X 814585 2097705 1638999 1900327 2836949 9288565 0 0 814585 2097705 1638999 1900327 2836949 9288565 4583489 4705076 924 1040 839 4149 5180 12132 0 2700 2071 1628 3478 4515 14392 9315089 612177 0.50510 0.52010 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED false false 7481 7481 2463338 2470819 273541 68385 false 190447 236557 243836 273541 944381 1416572 6992 9480 4240 7481 28193 47612 59139 60959 68385 236095 354143 6126 1670 4240 12036 8729 8729 70862 31312 39550 39550 X 3038742 3038742 3038742 2470819 2470819 2470819 Part X : FIN48 Footnote The Organization has evaluated its current tax positions as of June 30, 2016 and is not aware of any significant uncertain tax positions for which a reserve would be necessary. true League of Women Voters of CA 1107 Ninth St Ste 300 Sacramento CA 95814 680061260 501c3 12750 0 Voter's Edge project support 1 0 Grantmaker's Description of How Grants are Used MapLight does not typically give grants. Our only grantee is the League of Women Voters of California Education Fund, with whom we work closely on a joint project, Voter's Edge California. Our grant to them supported expenses they incurred taking on a more significant portion of the outreach to under-served communities aspect of that joint work. We are able to closely and continuously monitor that work because it is part of our joint project. X X true true false false false false false false false false Daniel Newman President 196370 7024 203394 Part III, Additional Information Pamela Behrsin participated in a nonqualified retirement plan but received no payment, and she received a severance pay payment of $4,615 during fiscal year ended June 30, 2016. Form 990, Part III, Line 2: New Services Expanded Voter's Edge voting guide to two new states, NY and IL; launched a new site, Dark Money Watch, exposing the influence of dark money on U.S. elections, and launched our Power Search tool in collaboration with the California Secretary of State. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process The 990 is prepared by the president, accounting firm, and bookkeeper, and is provided to each board member for review, prior to filing. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts Employees must disclose any actual, potential, or apparent conflict of interest to the President. Where appropriate, the President may require suitable remedial action, such as divestiture of adverse interests, recusal from certain decisions, or other action to avoid an appearance or existence of a conflict. As used herein, employee includes all those individuals working full or part-time for MapLight, whether in a paid or voluntary capacity, including board members, as well as all outside contractors who perform work for MapLight in a paid capacity. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management The President's compensation is determined by the board and deliberations include comparability data. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15b: Compensation Review and Approval Process for Officers and Key Employees Compensation of employees other than the President is determined by the President and deliberations include comparability data. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available Form 990 on the website, other docs available upon request.