Raven Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883580986
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9724350685
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children’s Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $418,447
- Expenses
- $591,319
- Assets
- $524,430
- Liabilities
- $2,683
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN MADSEN (PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT LEAZENBY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JOHN PIZZURO (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN PIZZURO (CEO): $183,992 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Raven was formed to bring together subject matter experts through multiple disciplines including experts in policy, laws, investigations, education, and research. Collectively raven brings over 200 years of experience to form the only advocacy group in the united states focused on our most important resource: our children.
What it reported doing in 2024
Contributed to the successful passage of the report act, which strengthens requirements for electronic service providers to report child sexual abuse material (csam) to the national center for missing and exploited children (ncmec). The legislation enhances efforts to protect children online and improve law enforcement response.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 26
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.1%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 40%; rating input score 40
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th 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: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -41.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 71.1% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 49.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.1% of revenue deployed · 40% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $237K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $184K · 10 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 15/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.