5Th Square Advocacy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 333272549
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 0000000000
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $73,368
- Expenses
- $3,014
- Assets
- $70,354
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Steph Davis (President)
People named in this filing
- Steph Davis (President)
- Russell Richie (Treasurer)
- William (Tung)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
5th Square Advocacy is a nonprofit organization working towards a more accessible sustainable and equitable Philadelphia and Pennsylvania
What it reported doing in 2025
5th Square Advocacy is a nonprofit organization working towards a more accessible sustainable and equitable Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Through grassroots organizing the organization mobilizes neighbors to advocate for people-centered communities fighting at all levels of government for policies that promote abundant housing safe roadways and accessible transit In 2025 the organization conducted a single integrated advocacy program across three issue areas Housing and Land Use Public Transportation and Roadway Safety Activities included conducting issue-specific campaigns and online petitions convening volunteer committee meetings across all three issue areas onboarding new volunteers through bi-monthly orientations reaching 642 onboarded volunteers by year-end hosting general social meetups for community organizing communicating with 15893 newsletter subscribers through a weekly email and social media conducting in-person canvassing and targeted outreach to underrepresented communities speaking with the press and authoring editorials articles and white papers contacting elected officials through email phone and text and organizing public testimony at meetings including City Hall the State Capitol SEPTA Headquarters and community organizations The organization grew to 100 sustaining members in 2025 Expenses 301353 Grants 0
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 89
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 4.1%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 95.9%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 23.34; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 4.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 4/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.