Endeavor Global Inc (F/k/a the Endeavor Initiative Inc)
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133931449
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2123523200
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- International Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,035,075
- Expenses
- $15,406,051
- Assets
- $16,545,402
- Liabilities
- $5,130,079
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LINDA ROTTENBERG (CEO & CO-FOUNDER)
- ADRIAN GARCIA-ARANYOS (PRESIDENT (THRU 05/2024))
Highest reported compensation
- LINDA ROTTENBERG (CEO & CO-FOUNDER): $2,050,272 total reported compensation
- ALLEN TAYLOR (MANAGING DIRECTOR): $958,452 total reported compensation
- MARGARITA CHAVEZ (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $619,775 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
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What it reported doing in 2024
New country expansionendeavor believes that building strong local offices is the best way to ensure scalable and long-term success. This model places co-ownership of the endeavor brand and lead responsibility for program execution on the local or affiliate office. Moreover, a local presence enables the organization to raise funds from local country benefactors and local sources to sustain local operations. Until the point at which an affiliate office is legalized as a separate, independent entity and has established a board of directors, endeavor incurs all start-up and development costs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 73% for direct work, and 27% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 68%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 97.8%; rating input score 98; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 24th 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: -39.6%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.07; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 37.6%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 68% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $10.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.1M · 21 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $923K reported
- Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 14 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 12 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.