Centerline Liberties Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
882300059
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2025965199
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Civil Liberties

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,782,794
Expenses
$5,312,434
Assets
$1,710,182
Liabilities
$310,642

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JAMES DOZIER (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • CASEY PICK (TREASURER): $5,000 total reported compensation
  • OLIVIA KURTZ (SECRETARY): $5,000 total reported compensation
  • ALEX LUNDY (DIRECTOR): $5,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Centerline liberties is a 501(c)(3) organization focused on advancing policy solutions capable of defending core constitutional freedoms and liberties, preserving a free market economy, and limiting the role of government in americans' everyday lives.

What it reported doing in 2024

Centerline liberties was founded to promote solutions capable of defending core constitutional freedoms and liberties, preserving a free market economy, and limiting the role of government in americans' everyday lives. Centerline liberties fosters robust public dialogues around a broad range of issues including, clean energy infrastructure and conservation, economic opportunity, and the freedom to marry. This work is advanced via earned and paid public communication, educational, and public opinion research tools. Over the past year this work has included policy research and reports, quantitative and qualitative public opinion analysis, and public statements on various policy solutions.

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 99% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 88
  • Accountability: 86
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.7%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 96.6%; rating input score 97
  • Fundraising efficiency: $321.27 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • 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: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.1%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.3%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 41.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 42.1% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 41.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 88.7% of revenue deployed · 96.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $5K · 4 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.2M reported
  • Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.