Dc Voice

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
300180184
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2010
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2010
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2025066367
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$165,982
Expenses
$250,564
Assets
$49,384

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2010. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2010. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To inform and mobilize the public to hold both schools and the community accountable for providing high-quality teaching and learning for all. Since 1999, dc voice has spear-headed various community action research initiatives in the areas of ready schools, teaching and learning supports, effective practices, and transforming schools.

What it reported doing in 2010

Butt out and move it campaigns - in partnership with the d.c. Department of health ('doh'), dc voice has successfully launched a tobacco prevention campaign to address the expansion of local tobacco prevention and control through policy, environmental and systems change. Dc voice is empowering and mobilizing 10,000 ward 7 residents (youths and adults) to demand public policy change around underage access to tobacco by: (1) restricting tobacco retail licenses through zoning and/or license restrictions, and (2) decreasing exposure to tobacco industry marketing by restricting point-of-purchase advertising. As such, dc voice is already uniquely positioned to work with doh to address the centers for disease control and prevention's 'tobacco free living' strategic direction, particularly as it relates to preventing and reducing tobacco use among vulnerable populations.

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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 90
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 7
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 71.7%; rating input score 72

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -51%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 71.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $180K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $78K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.