Men Can Stop Rape

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
522007652
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2022656530
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Sexual Abuse, Prevention

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,831,717
Expenses
$1,679,127
Assets
$376,498
Liabilities
$34,283

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • NEIL IRVIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • NEIL IRVIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $206,349 total reported compensation
  • RACHEL FRIEDMAN (DEPUTY DIRECTOR): $198,999 total reported compensation
  • JASON PAGE (SR. DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL PROGRAMS): $101,904 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Through our transformational youth development programs, pioneering trainings and consulting services, and acclaimed multimedia public education initiatives, mcsr has reached more than 200 million people. Founded in 1997 in Washington, dc, mcsr serves schools, organizations, businesses, and agencies locally, nationally, and globally. We take a pro-social, strength-based approach with the goal of producing sustainable, measurable outcomes at each level of the social ecological model emphasizing primary prevention, social and emotional intelligence, healthy masculinity, and empowered womanhood. Mission: rooted in community, based in strength, and grounded in respect, mcsr prevents violence through transformational programs and services for youth and adults that promote healthy masculinity and empowered womanhood.vision: infinite possibilities of cultures free from violence.

What it reported doing in 2024

Communications: communications includes the organization's social media messaging materials and licensing agreements, social media, and public relations. While the social context for rape-prevention campaign materials targeting men has traditionally identified men as "the problem," our communications initiatives offer an affirmative alternative: a social context where men are role modeling healthy choices and behaviors. Our materials use audience-centered advertisements to encourage both moral identification and moral agency in the target audience of young men. Typically, audience-centered ads sell a product by using something already liked/desired by a target audience. Our materials use the desired attribute "strength" to reconnect young men to their capacity for choosing to do the right thing. The male audience member is invited to identify with the positive actions representing his own peer group. This reinforces his sense of moral agency; helps transform the social meaning of "peer pressure; and creates safe public spaces in which young men can stand up and speak up as visible allies.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 82% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 86
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89.7%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 97.8%; rating input score 98
  • Fundraising efficiency: $57.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.3%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 30.2%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 89.7% of revenue deployed · 97.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $206K · 8 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $102K reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.