RepresentUs Education Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263088283
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Florence, MA, USA
- Phone
- 8555858100
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,828,405
- Expenses
- $7,760,781
- Assets
- $3,349,360
- Liabilities
- $5,863,924
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Joshua Graham Lynn (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Joshua Graham Lynn (CEO): $310,401 total reported compensation
- Heather Gresham (VP HR): $258,923 total reported compensation
- Michael Dolence (VP Finance): $258,545 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See Schedule O
What it reported doing in 2024
Education and Communications: RepresentUs Education Fund leverages its large reach on social media to educate national audiences across ideological lines about what is happening and why it matters. Our mass communications reach national audiences with messages that are:-Easy to understand, informative and engaging-Nonpartisan and focused on issues-like corruption-that strike a chord with everyone regardless of political party-Rooted in storytelling about ordinary people experiencing harm due to corrupt authoritarianism-Solution-oriented, with a vision for a government truly accountable to the people that recognizes that-as we have argued for years-the status quo has been deeply flawed for a long time.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 61%; rating input score 61
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -102.7%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.75; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.4%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.5% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 61% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $310K · 16 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $728K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.