Disruption Project

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
851066939
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Phone
3142674664
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$150,000
Expenses
$41,462
Assets
$292,314
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Wende Marshall (Board Chair)
  • Alice Hu (Board Member)
  • Christina Liu (Board Member)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Providing pro bono training to community organizing groups predominantly pushing against climate change. Travel to research organizing in other countries as part of a documentation and writing. project. Providing digital tools and advice to emergent groups and campaigns for social change

What it reported doing in 2024

The group also provided trainers for a variety of projects throughout the country around different organizing, in addition to what is enumerated below, it included some popular education workshops in New York and St. Louis Attendance 50 people. The group also launched a youth organizing project in Philadelphia and built a local organizing committee of 15 youth, but affecting 300.

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 91% 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 44
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 91
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 22%; rating input score 22
  • Program expense ratio: 79.6%; rating input score 80

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: 72.4%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.05; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 50% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 53.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 53% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 22% of revenue deployed · 79.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $33K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 22/100.