Peak Grantmaking Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 743158155
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 8884661996
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Independent Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,320,383
- Expenses
- $7,129,646
- Assets
- $2,840,782
- Liabilities
- $2,204,385
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
30 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SATONYA FAIR (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- SATONYA FAIR (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $314,999 total reported compensation
- DOLORES ESTRADA (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $247,074 total reported compensation
- BETSY F REID (SENIOR COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR): $202,285 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Transforming philanthropy by elevating the field of grants management and empowering grants management professionals to lead the way in operationalizing equity-centered, values-driven grantmaking practices.
What it reported doing in 2024
Programs: peak's principles for peak grantmaking are our call to action to transform the practice of philanthropy into the practice of principled grantmaking. Peak's knowledge and learning initiatives support our members in adopting and championing equitable practices in their organizations and across the philanthropic sector. In 2024, peak supported members in advancing practice change with opportunities for emergent learning and peer connection across more than 100 events hosted by our regional chapters, caucuses, and affinity groups. Our annual convening in seattle brought together 1,200 professionals around the theme of reimagining.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 63.3%; rating input score 63
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: -34%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.78; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87% of revenue deployed · 63.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $4.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $315K · 30 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $603K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.