Sharing Inc DBA Shareable

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
833636047
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Bonny Doon, CA, USA
Phone
5025008000
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community, Neighborhood Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$592,631
Expenses
$623,218
Assets
$361,060
Liabilities
$24,996

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • Tom Llewellyn (Executive Dir.): $89,906 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Shareable collaborates with organizers and allies to imagine, resource, network, and scale cooperative projects. We envision a just, connected, and joyful world where sharing is daily practice and communities flourish.

What it reported doing in 2025

Shareable's 2025 program accomplishments include: Sharing Hubs & Infrastructure: Shareable works to establish sharing hubs like Libraries of Things in every community. Whether it is a simple how-to guide; the comprehensive Library of Things Toolkit; incubating the Tool Library Alliance; or partnerships to scale Libraries of Things in universities and affordable housing, Shareable develops useful tools so every community can create the infrastructure for sharing. 2025 Accomplishments: Shareable served as fiscal sponsor for the Tool Library Alliance; co-hosted 10 Library of Things learning sessions with the Tool Library Alliance; and produced a video and promotional materials for Libraries of Things in affordable housing, as well as planning and organizing for an affordable housing learning series launching early 2026.Mutual Aid: Shareable works to build capacity and to network mutual aid projects across the US and around the world. Whether it's a popular how-to guide; sharing stories on our podcast The Response; our ongoing Mutual Aid 101 learning series and toolkit; or partnerships to build capacity for mutual aid disaster resilience, Shareable is developing resources and networks to build communities of care. 2025 Accomplishments: Shareable hosted seven Mutual Aid 101 learning sessions attended by over 2,400 participants and produced the Mutual Aid 101 Toolkit.Co-op Sector: Shareable is working to support and strengthen democratic, community-controlled cooperative businesses and organizations. Whether it is educational partnerships like the Social Co-op Academy; piloting Food Assistance Co-ops; fighting to modernize and democratize local Electric Co-op Utilities (the second largest co-op sector in the US); or restructuring our own organization as a worker self-directed nonprofit, Shareable is shifting the narrative toward cooperative governance. 2025 Accomplishments: Shareable provided communications suport for the Rural Power Coalition; hosted eight Rural Electric Cooperative learning sessions; and produced a Rural Electric Cooperative Organizing Toolkit.Stories: Solutions-based journalism and storytelling that highlights community groups around the world. Editorial content on Shareable.net attracts ~30,000 visits/month (more than 15M lifetime page views). In 2025 Shareable launched a new website, published over 32 solutions-based articles, and released 11 episodes of The Response podcast.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 78% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 54
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 60.2%; rating input score 60
  • Program expense ratio: 56.7%; rating input score 57
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -5.2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.4%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 60.2% of revenue deployed · 56.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $354K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $90K · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 18/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.