Impact Guild Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
364880244
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Beverly Hills, CA, USA
Phone
3102797428
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Media, Communications Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$962,596
Expenses
$494,273
Assets
$593,814
Liabilities
$552

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

Leadership & pay

21 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JARED RUGA (DIRECTOR/CO-CHAIR/PRESIDENT)
  • CHAD BOETTCHER (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JARED RUGA (DIRECTOR/CO-CHAIR/PRESIDENT): $20,000 total reported compensation
  • SONYA LOCKETT (DIRECTOR/CO-CHAIR): $16,000 total reported compensation
  • CHAD BOETTCHER (PRESIDENT): $10,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Use entertainment media and storytelling to educate diverse audiences, and the public at large, about some of the country's most pressing issues, including social justice, environment, education, health, economic empowerment and civic engagement; continued on schedule oand to connect, support and advocate for people using media, entertainment and other forms of storytelling for social good and healthy democracies.

What it reported doing in 2024

Community infrastructure for accelerating intelligence: the ciai project is a custom artificial intelligence platform being jointly developed by impact guild, future stack strategies, and hattaway communications to unite media/entertainment leaders, funders, and practicioner ngos to accelerate intelligence across multiple points of the pro-democracy ecosystem.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% 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: 45
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 72
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 37.4%; rating input score 37
  • Program expense ratio: 72.5%; rating input score 73
  • 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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: 48.7%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 50.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 51.5% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 52.6% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 37.4% of revenue deployed · 72.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $358K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $20K · 21 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $266K reported
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.