Evolve a Community Organization

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
452051015
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2011
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Phone
4153773189
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community, Neighborhood Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$90,663
Expenses
$70,849
Assets
$96,714

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Emil Margolis (President)

People named in this filing

  • Michael Bornstein (Executive Dir.)
  • Emil Margolis (President)
  • Rachita Rawal (Director)

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

The specific purposes of this corporation are to promote social welfare in the areas of education, equality, environment, energy, and economics by educating the public and public officials regarding community issues and policies, promoting projects that are beneficial to the community, promoting the adoption or rejection of legislation, including measures on the ballot, and generally pursuing programs and activities that involve improvement of the quality of life of average working families in the community.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025 we had two major areas of focus. The first was educating the public on the continued underfunding of California public schools. We organized dozens of actions with college students and our members at farmers markets, street fairs, college campuses and other public places to raise awareness about the lack of education funding in California. This was done to build public support for future policy work. The second, was expanding our recruitment efforts at multiple campuses across the Bay Area to increase the diversity of our college internship program. We also enhanced the number and quality of the workshops that we offer our interns as well as diversified the types of opportunities our students receive to practice the organizing skills we teach them.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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: 50
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 58
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 44.7%; rating input score 45
  • Program expense ratio: 57.2%; rating input score 57

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 21.9%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.37; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -29.8% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 44.7% of revenue deployed · 57.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $41K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.