It describes its aims as election monitoring, voter education, electoral reform, and supporting democratic processes.

[4] As of January 2025[update], ISFED listed seven members of its Board, including chair Mikheil Kechaqmadze and secretary Nikoloz Simonishvili.

[3] In 2020, with support from United States Agency for International Development (USAID), ISFED planned on monitoring electoral process before and after the 2020 Georgian parliamentary election.

[7] ISFED's initially published PVT results erroneously included invalid ballots and stated that in 8% of polling stations, the total vote count was greater than the number of voter signatures.

[2] In its social media monitoring of the 2021 Georgian local elections, ISFED found that the firehose of falsehood technique was used for disinformation.

In response to the exclusion, four Georgian non-governmental organizations, the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information, Democracy Research Institute, Georgian Young Lawyers' Association [ka], and Social Justice Center called for GD to restore ISFED's participation in the working group and stated that they would suspend their participation in all working groups created by GD.