Policy Partners Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
862070003
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
Location
St Petersburg, FL, USA
Phone
7274092145
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis

Reported finances

Revenue
$199,537
Expenses
$188,305
Assets
$140,135
Liabilities
$112,244

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CAROLINE Y HEPBURN BROWN (CO-PRESIDENT)
  • JOHN MALONE (CO-PRESIDENT)
  • ROXANNE FIXSEN (CO-PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • CAROLINE Y HEPBURN BROWN (CO-PRESIDENT): $55,734 total reported compensation
  • JOHN MALONE (CO-PRESIDENT): $29,680 total reported compensation
  • ROXANNE FIXSEN (CO-PRESIDENT): $25,611 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Improve community well-being by bringing together decision makers and those most impacted by decisions to co-create solutions and maximize impact.

What it reported doing in 2025

Supported a neighborhood-based model for leadership development, community engagement, and coordinated action in partnership with two community organizations and the city of st. Petersburg. Helped develop and launch a small-scale pilot, the neighborhood resilience collective (nrc) micro- activation, to translate community priorities into coordinated neighborhood action. In 2025 the organization received 22,567.50 of in-kind services contributed to this initiative.

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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 63
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85.9%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 91%; rating input score 91
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.6%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.8; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 59%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 44.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 89.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85.9% of revenue deployed · 91% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $171K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $56K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • 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.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.