For a Better Philadelphia

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 863081305
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2023–2024
Forms available: Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Phone: 2679354080
Rating: 70
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue: $7
Expenses: $66,857
Assets: $52,895
Liabilities: $0

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

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

People named in this filing

David Maser (Board Chair)
Priscilla Jimenez (Board Secretary)

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

To create ideas to help the city of Philadelphia operate more efficiently and grow its tax base over time to provide better service to the citizenry.

What it reported doing in 2024

Get out the Vote- The organization continued to build plans to engage voters on the importance of voting.

Operating model

Revenue model: Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 71
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 26
Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
Program expense ratio: 22.4%; rating input score 22

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: -955,000%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -144.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -56% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -88.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 22.4% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
Schedules: 1 filed schedules
Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
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.

High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 22/100.
High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.