Catapult
Legal name: Catapult Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464311663
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2016
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2016, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- Phone
- (718) 749-9545
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $150,336
- Expenses
- $631,232
- Assets
- $206,787
- Liabilities
- $25,667
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- MARY KESSLER (VICE CHAIR & FOUNDER)
- BLAIR BREARD (INTERIM BOARD CHAIR)
- LOUISE DUNN (BOARD SECRETARY/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 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Catapult is a crowdfunding platform where people can join forces for a more equal world. 100% of donations go directly to projects for girls’ and women’s rights and development.
What it reported doing in 2016
2016 program activities included crowdfunding, fundraising and grantmaking to girls and women's rights organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 65% for direct work, and 35% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 67.3%; rating input score 67
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -319.9%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.9%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -39.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -28.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 67.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $425K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.