Alliance for Social and Economic Justice

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
471956011
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Phone
4158631927
Rating
51
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Coalitions

Reported finances

Revenue
$199,614
Expenses
$199,290
Assets
$100
Liabilities
$160

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Karl Kramer (president)
  • Francisco Herrera (vice president)
  • Rachel West (vice president)
  • Guillermina Castellanos (Vice-President)
  • Kaylah Marin (music festival executive director)

People named in this filing

  • Karl Kramer (president)
  • Savannah Landau (secretary)
  • Kirsten Moller (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

Providing advocacy, educational and cultural activities on social and economic justice for low-wage workers and low-income residents and providing leadership development, community development, and workforce development training and workshops

What it reported doing in 2025

Administered a Center for Social and Economic Justice that provided workspace and meeting space to 17 organizations serving low-wage workers, held 12 community events with 600 attending, held 16 meetings and workshops with 250 participants, distributed 5,000 pieces of educational material

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 62% for direct work, and 38% for grants.

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: 17
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 17
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 16.6%; rating input score 17
  • Program expense ratio: 16.7%; rating input score 17

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.2%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.6; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 36%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -33.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 20.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -147.5% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 16.6% of revenue deployed · 16.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $33K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 17/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.