League of Minority Voters
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261669456
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5039468526
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Voter Education, Registration
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $577,821
- Expenses
- $424,105
- Assets
- $260,833
- Liabilities
- $-19
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PROMISE KING (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PROMISE KING (PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER YRUEGAS (CO CHAIR)
- MIKE CULLY (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
Promote the advancement of minority civic rights through education and empowerment and bringing a voice to the issues that uniquely impact communities of color.
What it reported doing in 2024
The league of minority voters made 20 million contacts with voters this election cycle with our get out the vote initiative and voter registration efforts through partnerships with local & national media and various social media platforms. Through our lift every voice & vote campaign in Oregon, California, Washington, Virginia, Maryland, and Minnesota, we achieved a record-breaking 4.2 million people receiving voting information across the board. We surged our use of ethnic languages and translation initiatives to reach over 2 million new voters. We celebrated our national voter registration day with bipartisan events across the country. Our state chapters around the country organized candidate and planning issues forums. We partnered with katu news, part of sinclair media inc., cambia health foundation, k&l gates law, and stanford university to achieve this milestone. Additionally, our national youth council reached over 900,000 youth contacts.
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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. 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: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.7%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $26.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
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: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.6%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 28.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 39.3% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.7% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $339K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 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: 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.