Peace Action

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
363294748
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Silver Spring, MD, USA
Phone
3015654050
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$823,713
Expenses
$734,316
Assets
$784,926
Liabilities
$482,050

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

19 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KEVIN MARTIN (PRESIDENT)
  • JONATHAN RAINWATER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • JONATHAN RAINWATER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $128,518 total reported compensation
  • KEVIN MARTIN (PRESIDENT): $100,734 total reported compensation
  • ROSALIE BROOKS (SR. DIRECTOR, FINANCE & ADMIN): $100,415 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To build citizen support for budget priorities that fund human needs instead of endless war, eliminate weapons of mass destruction, and increase international cooperation.

What it reported doing in 2025

Affiliate and member services: peace action co-hosts an annual national organizer's meeting bringing together activists from across the country to set targets, objectives, strategies and tactics for national organizing campaigns. Also, a number of surveys were developed for individual members and chapters/affiliates to gather input on membership and other organizational issues. These surveys would provide a more structured avenue for gathering and sharing input and to help focus the work of the national organization.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 68.5%; rating input score 68
  • Program expense ratio: 76.8%; rating input score 77
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 10.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.07; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.61; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 19.6%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 68.5% of revenue deployed · 76.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $564K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $129K · 19 people listed
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 21/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.