Boots To Books
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 854377724
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4155001756
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,093
- Expenses
- $116,180
- Assets
- $26,685
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Peter Cline (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Peter Cline (CEO)
- Aubrey Sine (CFO)
- William McNicholas (Board Chair)
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
Boots to Books provides education and employment assistance to veterans and their families through live events, job-seeker skills training, technical upskilling, resource scholarships, and employment opportunities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Live Events: Description: Boots to Books hosts periodic virtual and in-person events across the United States, primarily on military bases upon invitation from transition centers or virtually. These events are centered on career discovery, resume writing, and interview preparation and intend to bring up-to-date industry best practices and resources to the transitioning community. The organization prioritizes supporting these events to get our resources into servicemembers hands early, while they have a steady paycheck to plan with. Events often include scholarship opportunities and have included small group technical training in fields such as information technology by instructors provided by Boots to Books. Events Held: 21Large Virtual Events: 9 Number of Event Attendees (not including on-base events below): 2,5819.6/10 Average Response to How Likely Would You be to Recommend This Event to a Friend Thats a Job-Seeker? Small Group or Cohort-Based Events: 4 Two cohorts (one pilot - 3 participants, one larger cohort - 13 participants). Cohorts attended monthly events with recruiters and industry professionals, received resume reviews, did live training, and got a scholarship for an industry-recognized certification. Events Providing Resources on Military Bases: 9 Estimated Attendees: 630 Expanded partnership with US Army Reserve and transition centers across the country, from California to Florida, to provide more in-person career services on base than any year prior.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 87.2%; rating input score 87
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: -96.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 48.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $101K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.