Ruby Together

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
473176659
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2020
Forms available
Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2020
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Phone
7724447829
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues

Reported finances

Revenue
$189,265
Expenses
$220,263
Assets
$49,643
Liabilities
$82,106

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Andr Arko (Executive Dir.)
  • Adarsh Pandit (Director)
  • Allison Sheren McMillen (Director)

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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Ruby Together maintains and develops public, freely available software tools andservers for the Ruby programming language using dues collected from individuals and companies that use Ruby as part of their business.

What it reported doing in 2020

Our single program in 2020 was funding software maintenance and developmentwork for the Bundler and RubyGems software in the Ruby programming language.Both Bundler and RubyGems are included in the Ruby language itself, free ofcharge, and used by hundreds of thousands of software developers around theworld.Not counting the copies of Bundler and RubyGems included with Ruby itself, in2020 Bundler was downloaded approximately 283,750,000 times and RubyGemswas downloaded approximately 100,000,000 times. We are confident providing overone million copies of our software per day means we are serving hundreds ofthousands of individuals and companies throughout the world.The RubyGems system also allows developers to collaborate with one another, sharing code in packages called gems. In 2020, we provided hosting service forover 100,000 gems. Those gems were downloaded over 20.2 billion times duringthe year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 11
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 68.7%; rating input score 69

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -16.4%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.65; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.8%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80% of revenue deployed · 68.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $151K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2015 to 2020
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.