Peoples Water Board Coalition

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
845155732
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2020
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Detroit, MI, USA
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management

Reported finances

Revenue
$109,290
Expenses
$121,641
Assets
$135,251

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Mary Ellen Howard (Board President)

People named in this filing

  • Mary Ellen Howard (Board President)
  • Victor A Arbulu (Teasurer)
  • Gwendolyn Gaines (Secretary)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Water is life. The People's Water Board Coalition advocates for the human rights to water and sanitation and equitable access and affordability for impacted communities. This achieved by implementing Outreach into the Community in addition PWBC provides Public Education and Advocacy.

What it reported doing in 2020

Advocacy - Over the year we worked across a network of organizations and communities to bring greater awareness to the growing problem of unaffordable water sewage and stormwater bills. We discussed with community leaders and elected leaders what we learned in our community outreach work and consulted with residents in regional cities about similar concerns. We met with state representatives and officials to educate them about pandemic-related concerns with high water bills economic hardship and accounts in arrearage. We also consulted with policy makers academic institutions and foundations on how to promote polices and programs that could protect vulnerable residents especially in low-income communities of color. We believe that a range of 300 to 500 residents and leaders directly benefitted from our advocacy efforts and more than 1,000 indirectly benefitted.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 62
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 65.1%; rating input score 65
  • Program expense ratio: 58.5%; rating input score 58

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -11.3%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 65.1% of revenue deployed · 58.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $71K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.