Rethink35
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931903619
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2169041925
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $27,816
- Expenses
- $45,348
- Assets
- $31,277
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Miriam Schoenfield (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Miriam Schoenfield (Board President)
- Adam Greenfield (Board Member)
- Misael Ramos (Board Member)
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
Rethink35's primary purpose is stopping the I-35 expansion in Austin, Texas, which it has done by filing a lawsuit against TxDOT (Texas Department of Transportation). Rethink35 want to stop the I-35 expansion for the benefit and health of the residents of Austin and beyond as there are negative environmental, health and costs associated with expanding highways continually.
What it reported doing in 2025
This grant allowed us to hire a consultant to interview interested parties and facilitate a strategic retreat to help us reorganize the mission of our organization and expand the scope of it to include more than just fighting the I-35 highway expansion.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 77% 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. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 31
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 22.1%; rating input score 22
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: -63%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -93.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -131.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -43.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36% of revenue deployed · 22.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.