Campaign for Peace Disarmament and Common Security Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822909633
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Watertown, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6176616130
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arms Control, Peace
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $92,584
- Expenses
- $91,938
- Assets
- $37,653
- Liabilities
- $2,500
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSEPH C GERSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOSEPH C GERSON (PRESIDENT)
- GRETCHEN ALTHER (CHAIRPERSON)
- JOHN CRAWFORD (TREASURER AND ASST CLERK)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To educate the general public about the need to reduce international conflict and prevent war by promoting understanding and common security.
What it reported doing in 2024
Various educational events conducted to promote the exempt purpose of the organization.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% 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 and program spending has grown recently. 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: 14
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 13.5%; rating input score 14
- Program expense ratio: 13.6%; rating input score 14
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: 0.7%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 38.2%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 13.5% of revenue deployed · 13.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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 14/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.