Kantara Initiative Inc
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What it says it does
Kantara Initiative is a trust framework provider since 2010 See Schedule O for continuation.
- Income
- $628,020
- Spending
- $832,211
- Employees
- 4
- Volunteers
- 50
- Highest pay
- $171,886, executive director
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Governance
This return does not answer enough of the governance questions to score.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (1)
- Kantara Initiative provides strategic vision and real world innovation for the digital identity transformation. Developing initiatives including: Deepfakes and IDV; Privacy Enhancing Mobile Credentials; User Managed Access; Resilient Identifiers for Underserved Populations; and Anchored Notification and Consent Receipt. Kantara Initiative also maintains the Identity Assurance Trust Framework (IAF) which underpins the assurance program providing third party conformance audits for NIST standard 800-63.3 for the federal Digital Identity Guidelines. The IAF is kept current by the Identity Assurance Work Group. Kantara Initiative develops innovations to solve real world problems for the identity based digital transformation. While connections to digital services and technologies grow, data generated by those connections is a challenge to manage. In the landscape of identity, security, and access technology and policy, varying national approaches and schemes exist. Governments and industry are connecting more and more to leverage their strengths for provision of services. This is the world of borderless IDM, where governments and industry seek to harmonize. Kantara Initiative develops assurance and interoperability programs to support the trust layer of online transactions. Kantara Initiative provides global leadership ensuring that diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) are part of all digital identity solutions and systems. Kantaras DEIA initiative works to establish a uniform terminology regarding DEIA requirements, identifies the return on investment for solution providers to incorporate important DEIA components in their products, and ensures that requirements for DEIA are easy to understand yet robust enough to provide access to service for everyone. Kantara Initiative also runs the third-party conformance assessment program in the US for the NIST 800-63 and also provides certification of requirements for the United Kingdom Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework (DIATF). Kantara Initiative provides educational presentations at digital identity conferences, to members of the Administration, and federal and state agencies on request.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(6) business league.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated November 6, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Caution.
The IRS master file records contributions to this 501(c)(6) business league as not deductible.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since August 2016.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated November 4, 2026.
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