The Revenue Watch Institute is a 501c(3) U.S. Public Charity incorporated in the District of Columbia. View a copy of our IRS Tax Determination letter. (pdf)
Our annual budget is comprised solely of the grant contributions of our donors. RWI's budget for the FY 2006 totaled $3.5 million US. In FY 2007 RWI's budget totaled $5.5 million US, and for FY 2008 RWI has budgeted $8.6 million US.
Our financial accounts are audited annually by Lutz & Carr, LLP. View our latest financial summaries:
Revenue Watch Institute Audited Financial Statements for 2006 (pdf)
RWI DONORS
Revenue Watch's funding comes through grants from foundations, governments and international financial institutions. We are extremely grateful for the generous support of the following donors:
| 2006 | |
| The Open Society Institute | $1,500,000 |
| The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | $1,500,000 |
| The World Bank | $225,000 |
| Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs | $200,000 |
| 2007 | |
| The Open Society Institute | $1,700,000 |
| Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, Oil for Development | $1,000,000 |
| The World Bank | $292,000 |
| Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs | $100,000 |
| Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade | $68,000 (CAD) |
| 2008 | |
| The Open Society Institute | $3,000,000 |
| The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | $2,000,000 |
| Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, Oil for Development | $1,000,000 |
| The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | $2,500,000 |
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Revenue Watch and our partners engage in increasingly diverse forms of public finance monitoring, including service delivery, participatory budgeting, and aid and expenditure tracking. Our partners are coalescing into an indigenous-led network of non-governmental organizations at the forefront of the battle against corruption and abuse of the public interest.
Grant-making is RWI's primary tool for engaging civil society in resource-rich countries and is an important means to motivate, support and build grassroots movements that create sustained local and international demand for revenue and expenditure transparency.
RWI takes a comprehensive approach to improving governance and development across the entire value chain, from the organization of extractive production, revenue generation, and revenue management, and through to the expenditure processes and national development outcomes.