Revolutionary Workers

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
331420972
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Bothell, WA, USA
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Civil Liberties

Reported finances

Revenue
$43,627
Expenses
$91,159
Assets
$8,207

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kshama Sawant (President)

People named in this filing

  • Sonja Ponath (Treasurer)
  • Kailyn Nicholson (Director)
  • Kshama Sawant (President)

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

We engage with working people to educate them and help them get organized. We are involved in education and advocacy and participate in social justice activities organized by us and others. We develop an analysis of current and past events and use that to help workers young people and the poor organize for their interests. We maintain a website and produce a written magazine and pamphlets. Our activities are conducted by volunteers. Activities are funded by membership dues and donations from working people. We do not take corporate donations.

What it reported doing in 2025

Our focus is on public awareness policy education and peaceful participation in the democratic process. We hold weekly meetings to discuss current events and social education. This past year we produced two magazines. We wrote multiple articles featured in various online news outlets as well as for our website covering activities historical wins and other successes for working people.

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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 13
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -109%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 12; 12th 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: 199.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -24.5% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -148.7% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $91K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.