Rebel Ventures

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
811962970
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Phone
6154000550
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$28,184
Expenses
$27,532
Assets
$78,506
Liabilities
$7,745

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

People named in this filing

  • DANIEL MERIN (BOARD CHAIR)
  • JARRETT STEIN (BOARD SECRETARY)
  • WHITNEY WINTERS (BOARD TREASURER)

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

Social enterprise engaging youth in leadership and entrpreneurship that develops and distribute products directly with and for kids in our community.

What it reported doing in 2025

Rebel ventures engaged 6 low-income high school students in meaningful entrepreneurship education in 2025. These students learned entrepreneurship by being entrepreneurs. They participated in numerous activities including developing a new rebel crumble flavor, social media marketing, and leading business meetings and attending workshops.

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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 53
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 68.8%; rating input score 69
  • Program expense ratio: 70.5%; rating input score 70

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.3%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.85; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -60.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -34.8% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -23% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 68.8% of revenue deployed · 70.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $19K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.