Center for Partnership Systems
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770154454
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Carmel, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8316248377
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Behavioral Science
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $263,281
- Expenses
- $240,140
- Assets
- $188,192
- Liabilities
- $70,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RIANE EISLER (PRESIDENT AND CO-FOUNDER)
Highest reported compensation
- LEAH GOWRON (OPERATIONS MANAGER AND ACTING TREASURER/SECRETARY): $40,800 total reported compensation
- RIANE EISLER (PRESIDENT AND CO-FOUNDER): $25,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Accelerate movement to partnership systems of gender and racial equity, economic prosperity, and a sustainable environment through research, education, grassroots empowerment, and policy initiatives that promote human development,
What it reported doing in 2025
Caring economics program and general programs - dedicated to research and education to help move to economic policies and practices that give more visibility and value to the work of caring for people, starting in early childhood. This campaign features 3 programs focused on public policies, leadership development, and coalition building. General programs and the spiritual alliance to stop intimate violence (saiv) - education and dissemination of information to support the organizations mission.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 67% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 75
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.9%; rating input score 50
- Program expense ratio: 54.7%; rating input score 55
- Fundraising efficiency: $95.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.8%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49.9% of revenue deployed · 54.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $131K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $41K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 22 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D revenue reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.