Corporate Ethics International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 753133181
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4152389977
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Humanities Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $63,779
- Expenses
- $41,716
- Assets
- $47,936
- Liabilities
- $1,422
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL MARX (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL MARX (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JEFF WILES (CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD)
- KIRK HULETT (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
Adivisng charities & foundation on public advocacy
What it reported doing in 2025
Advisor of the moving beyond oil fund, new venture fund, donoro advisor on a public education campaign and grantees for accelerating the transition to a clean transportation economy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
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: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 34.6%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -20.3% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -18.4% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.