Peace Action West
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943123815
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2016
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016
- Location
- Silver Springs, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3015654050
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Peace and Security
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $248,499
- Expenses
- $244,099
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Jon Rainwater (Executive Dir.): $33,981 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Peace Action West is a non-partisan membership organization that promotes arms control and cooperative approaches to foreign policy. We serve as a bridge between ordinary people and policy makers to give voice to a public that supports a foreign policy that embodies the best values of the American people. Our families-indeed people across the world-deserve to live in safety and peace. We believe that security and peace are best achieved working with other nations to craft pragmatic solutions to international problems. By mobilizing diverse constituencies through grassroots action and the media we work to: Prevent the development, testing, proliferation, and use of weapons of mass destruction, control the trade in lethal weapons that fuel conflict around the world, and resolve international conflict through diplomatic non-violent means.
What it reported doing in 2016
Membership education and mobilization: Served over 50,000 members and supporters through informing members of current events and issues pertaining to promoting a peaceful foreign policy. Delivered more than 10,000 action alerts to our "Peace Action Team", members of congress included. Mobilized individuals by phone to targeted congressional districts in the western states in order to activate members to contact their senator or representative around key foreign policy issues.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 27
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 28.8%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 28.9%; rating input score 29
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 10; 10th 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.8%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.9%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -143.6% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -107.7% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 28.8% of revenue deployed · 28.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $70K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $34K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2015 to 2016
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 10/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.