Involvement Advocacy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363826422
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Dayton, OH, USA
- Phone
- 9377325123
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $172,003
- Expenses
- $133,087
- Assets
- $153,415
- Liabilities
- $1,937
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOE MARK (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- PETER BENKENDORF (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOE MARK (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- BRIAN HUELSMAN (SECRETARY)
- PEGGY WEST (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Involvement advocacy establishes, and helps individuals and organizations establish, new programs and initiatives that add economic, cultural, civic or social capacity and value to the community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Continued to support the following ongoing projects: applied theater, claridge skatepark, community of well-being, dayton homecoming, essential artists, heresy dayton, home avenue, positive deviants, race dayton, beyond vision art.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.5%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 86.5%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.6%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.5% of revenue deployed · 86.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $115K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.