Charity Defense Council Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
451138240
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2023
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2023
Location
Topsfield, MA, USA
Phone
9782137014
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Civil Rights

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$12,201
Assets
$147,553
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAN PALLOTTA (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • DAN PALLOTTA (PRESIDENT)
  • SETH PERLMAN (SECRETARY/TREASURER)
  • NEIL MCCARTHY (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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To advance public understanding of what charities require in order to maximize their social impact; and to act as a resource for the media on important questions about overhead, executive compensation, marketing, risk-taking, fundraising, and capital.

What it reported doing in 2023

The charity defense council responds to and rectifies sensational reporting on the charitable sector and on individual charities, and pro-actively educates the media; provides brace and daring public campaigns to change the way people think about charities; challenges counterproductive regulations and laws that violate first amendment rights; will draft a national civil rights act for charity and social enterprises; and does grassroots organizing for the charitable sector on a town-by-town, state-by-state basis.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 3
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 3

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.09; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -25.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -26.6% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 3.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $406 in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 to 2023
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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: Program expense ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.