Glahr Action Network
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844531561
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Voter Education, Registration
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,351,229
- Expenses
- $1,303,195
- Assets
- $2,430,591
- Liabilities
- $4,600
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSE PEREZ FIRMAT (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
People named in this filing
- ONESIMO PELCASTRE (SECRETARY)
- JOSE PEREZ FIRMAT (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
- NAYELI QUESADA (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Educating and training volunteers and canvassers not affiliated with political party or candidate; reachin out to latix voters in ga to come out and vot, keeping them aware of the polling locations and dates with materil distribution; promoting the gotv in social media
What it reported doing in 2024
Form 990, part i, line 1 - organization mission or significant activities promotion of social welfare. The primary purpose of glahr action network, inc. Is to promote social welfare, particularly as it relates to creating, implementing, and supporting public policies that benefit communities. Such activities will command more than 50 of the organizations time and more than 50 of its financial resources. To promote social welfare, the organization will engage in the following activities: policy research. Glahr action network, inc. Will conduct, coordinate, and sponsor research concerning issues on latino demographics. The results of this activity will be used to inform and direct public education and awareness of these issues and provide public policy recommendations. Public education. Glahr action network, inc. Endeavors to increase public awareness and educate residents of Georgia about principles and policies impacting communities on issues of of the civic engagement process and gotv: how it works, who is eligible, and its requirements etc. The organization expects to accomplish this goal by hosting small events, public forum town halls, and policy institutes for community members and political leadership trainings within Georgia. The organization will also do this by preparing and distributing literature concerning the subject. The organization will utilize various media outlets, including television, radio, newsletters, and online social media platforms to disseminate its educational messages. In addition, the organization will promote principles and policies, that will empower Georgia communities and citizens to gotv and to reach out to their elected representatives and participate in public dialogue regarding community needs. To the extent the organization advocates public policy positions at its informational events or in its literature, the positions will be supported by a sufficiently full and fair exposition of pertinent facts to permit the reader to form an independent opinion. Advocacy activities. Glahr action network, inc. May advocate changes in public policy, particularly those relating to latinos in Georgia. This objective may be accomplished by outreaching communities educating members of the Georgia legislature and other governing bodies, or by broadly disseminating literatura advocating civica 101 and or change in plublic policies through canvassing. Political campaing intervention. The organization anticipates that it will occasionally intervene in political campaigns to support or to oppose candidates that dont align with glahr action network, inc.s mission. The organization is, however, fully cognizant of the legal limitations on political intervention by social welfare organizations, including the standards set forth in rev. Rul. 81-95, 1981-1 c.b. 332 and other sources, and the organization will not allow political campaign intervention to become its primary purpose or to consume more of the organizations time or financial resources than the social welfare activities described above.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.7%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 44.6%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.87; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 37% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 37.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 47.6% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.7% of revenue deployed · 82.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 46/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.