Community Advocates for Just and Moral Governance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
834222460
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location
San Diego, CA, USA
Phone
6195007720
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis

Reported finances

Revenue
$163,826
Expenses
$203,349
Assets
$84,723
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DOUGLAS ODEN (PRESIDENT)
  • GENEVIEVE JONES-WRIGHT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • DOUGLAS ODEN (PRESIDENT)
  • SCOTT DREHER (SECRETARY)
  • JASMIN HARRIS (TREASURER)

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

Community advocates for just and moral governance (mogo) is committed to engaging in litigation and various forms of advocacy that make the government more just and fully accountable to all people, especially those who have historically been marginalized from society.

What it reported doing in 2025

Community empowerment and education - mogo held a summit at and in partnership with a local community college and hosted several townhalls aimed at educating community members about local, state, and federal initiatives and proposals that impact their day-to-day lives. Mogo adopted two families with students and special needs persons and supplied them with items necessary to live and thrive at school (including sports-appropriate clothing to play school sports). Mogo also partnered with a local university on a report related to our advocacy. Mogo continue to engage with high school, college, and law students through our internship and externship opportunities.

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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 51
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 54.6%; rating input score 55
  • Program expense ratio: 44%; rating input score 44

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: -24.1%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 34.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 57.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -13.1% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -29.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 54.6% of revenue deployed · 44% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $89K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.