Coalition for a Safer Web
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842261574
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2023521995
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $627,921
- Expenses
- $471,210
- Assets
- $538,397
- Liabilities
- $9,500
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARC GINSBERG (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ERIC FEINBERG (DIRECTOR): $88,000 total reported compensation
- MARC GINSBERG (PRESIDENT): $56,000 total reported compensation
- ALEX BRAHA (DIRECTOR): $21,300 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Csw is a non-partisan, not-for-profit advocacy organization whose mission is, inter alia, to promote new public/private partnerships to facilitate the expeditious removal of extremist & terrorist incitement and instruction content from social media platforms.
What it reported doing in 2024
Execute new partnership understandings with the americanjewish committee, the advertising industry of america, the fund to combatantisemitism, the digital citizens alliance, the computer science departmentof the university of California, berkely, john anderson (tracing antisemiticoperations following the hamas attack on israel on october 7, 2023.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 34
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.5%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 84.6%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 40%; rating input score 40; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Limited
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.1%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 106.3% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 50.5% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 54.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.5% of revenue deployed · 84.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $399K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $88K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 40/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.