Proposition One Committee
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521710171
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Tryon, NC, USA
- Phone
- 2022103886
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,934
- Expenses
- $24,959
- Assets
- $248,707
- Liabilities
- $61,340
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- William C Wardlaw (President)
People named in this filing
- William C Wardlaw (President)
- Ellen B Thomas (Treasurer)
- Troy C Kovacs (Director)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Communicating via social media and gatherings, including travel, to educate about all issues nuclear, and encourage young people interested in learning the history and participating as volunteers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, and 24% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 48.3%; rating input score 48
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -109.1%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.96; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -94.3% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -15.8% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 48.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.