Peace Action Education Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521554826
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Silver Spring, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3015654050
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arms Control, Peace
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $560,006
- Expenses
- $536,037
- Assets
- $1,440,372
- Liabilities
- $115,188
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 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 (SENIOR DIRECTOR, FINANCE &): $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
Peace action education fund (paef) is dedicated to increasing public understanding of nuclear and conventional disarmament, human rights abuses and the arms trade, and that national and global security requires working cooperatively with the international community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Peace education: paef leaders play a leadership role in several important coalitions including the nuclear weapons working group, back from the brink, people over pentagon, lift sanctions save lives (paef an original founder), the korea peace network, iran working group, syria-iraq working group, pentagon budget campaign, budget priorities working group, and other groupings that bring together. Washington, dc-based disarmament organizations, congressional offices and other policymakers to help coordinate congressional education on issues ranging from stopping the global arms trade and ending the war on yemen.the outbreak of wars on gaza and ukraine bring with them the threat of escalation, up to and including the existential threat of nuclear war. A series of complex policy issues, like the demand for a ceasefire in each of these wars, confront our supporters and the general public. Paef serves as a clearinghouse for reliable information and offers policy alternatives for those who favor a peaceful resolution to each conflict.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.1%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 73.2%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 17; 17th 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: 4.3%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.69; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 41.1%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.1% of revenue deployed · 73.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $393K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $129K · 13 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.