Commit Partnership
Legal name: Commit2dallas
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800790222
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2022
- Location
- Dallas, TX, US
- Phone
- (214) 451-0568
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $48,073,476
- Expenses
- $32,770,008
- Assets
- $59,986,935
- Liabilities
- $14,175,998
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MIGUEL SOLIS (President)
- TODD WILLIAMS (President & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MIGUEL SOLIS (President): $279,054 total reported compensation
- BRIDGET WORLEY (chf impact off): $249,320 total reported compensation
- CHELSEA JEFFERY (chf region OFF): $248,235 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To drive educational outcomes and community impact through data-driven collaboration and resource alignment.
What it reported doing in 2024
The purpose of Commits Statewide programming is to advance the development and implementation of student-centered, data-informed policy that drives specific outcomes and behavior change within school systems statewide, serving over 5 million public school students. Commit convenes partners across the state to align on collective student-outcome goals and programmatic approaches to accelerate academic achievement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 66% for direct work, and 34% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.7%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 83.5%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $27.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.8%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.83; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.6%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 57.7% of revenue deployed · 83.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 16 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $27.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $279K · 28 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.5M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 44 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 29 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.