Austin Allies
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 611898609
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5122938745
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Community Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $88,634
- Expenses
- $86,871
- Assets
- $16,903
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Erika Nowlin (Executive Director)
- Dr Kris Robinson (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Erika Nowlin (Executive Director)
- Marjory Grogan (Employee)
- Erin Sewell (Employee)
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
Austin Allies' mission is to organize meaningful volunteer opportunities for families in the Greater Austin area by partnering with local nonprofits and those that they serve. Austin Allies is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization started by three moms at a kitchen table in South Austin. Looking around at our neighborhood, city, state and country, we didn't like what we saw - people were unhappy and unkind to each other. We wondered if taking care of others in our community might be just the thing everyone needed, and started calling local nonprofits to see how our families could help. We brought in some community-minded friends and their kids, who brought in their friends, and it just took off! During the Covid-19 pandemic, we launched #HelpingFromHome working with 96 non-profit partners with 650+volunteer families. We are so proud and grateful to be making a small difference in our corner of the world!
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, Austin Allies organized 215 volunteer opportunities supporting over 50 of our non-profit partners. Austin Allies had 14,196 volunteer hours from over 550 volunteer families. Key contributions included 13,404 pounds of food collected, 7,706 inspirational cards, signs, bookmarks, and notes, 2,270 cooked meals, lunches and baked good provided and 1,171 donated items, gift, and toys all supporting organization in the most need. The organization saw a year over year increase of 46% in volunteer hours and 4% in non-profits served!
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
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: 3
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.4%; rating input score 3
- Program expense ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 3
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: 2%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 80.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -87% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.8% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -39.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 3.4% of revenue deployed · 3.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 3/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.