Affordable Skies Coalition

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
995031423
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2022407895
Rating
41
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$64,084
Expenses
$149,633
Assets
$37,886
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jennifer C Rykaczewski (President and Executive Director)
  • Mark Guiod (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Jennifer C Rykaczewski (President and Executive Director)
  • Mark Guiod (Vice President)
  • Rhoel Ternate (Secretary and Treasurer)

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

Consumer advocacy for airline safety and affordability.

What it reported doing in 2025

From January 2025 to December 2025, Affordable Skies focused on engaging with the flying public to provide research and education on aviation issues affecting consumers. We analyze policies being proposed by legislative and regulatory agencies that have an effect on the safety and affordability of air travel for consumers. We provided education and information while also gathering information from the public (via surveys and requests for their flying experiences) to better understand their concerns and needs regarding air travel. This analysis and airline industry education was communicated to our members through emails, newsletters, social media posts, and other information displayed on our website. At the end of 2025, our community engagement with the flying public expanded our membership to over 10,000 individuals who identify themselves as air travelers wanting their voices heard and requesting more information to be better informed about the airline industry and how it affects them. In addition to data collection, we continue to monitor and research aviation policy and issues in order to provide better education on aviation issues that our members request and that is needed.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 17
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

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: -133.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 84.5%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -95.2% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -106.1% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.