Center on Conscience & War

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
530207406
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
202-483-2220
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$135,428
Expenses
$214,278
Assets
$120,999
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MICHAEL PRYSNER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • MICHAEL RASMUSSEN (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • RICHARD MORGAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR-PART YEAR)

People named in this filing

  • MICHAEL PRYSNER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • KELLY DOUGHERTY (COUNSELING DIRECTOR)
  • MICHAEL RASMUSSEN (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

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

The Center on Conscience & War (CCW) advocates for the rights of conscience, opposes militarism, and supports conscientious objectors.

What it reported doing in 2025

The center on conscience & war works to extend and defend the rights of conscientious objectors (cos), those who oppose their (continued on schedule o, statement 3)

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

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: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90

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: -58.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 47.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $193K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.