Scrutineers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994282093
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Petaluma, CA, USA
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Voter Education, Registration
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,218
- Expenses
- $37,296
- Assets
- $70,922
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Aileen Nakamura (President)
People named in this filing
- Aileen Nakamura (President)
- Mike LaBonte (Secretary)
- Debra Kattler (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
To educate train and mobilize non-partisan election scrutineers to advocate for transparent secure and accurate elections.
What it reported doing in 2025
Developed a custom-designed software program ScrutinEyes using volunteer labor that monitors and analyzes election results data posted online in real time flags anomalies and alerts users to potential issues to follow up with election officials.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 24
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 14.4%; rating input score 14
- Program expense ratio: 41.8%; rating input score 42
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 65.5%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.9; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 14.4% of revenue deployed · 41.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $16K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 42/100.