The Living New Deal Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463760943
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Oakland, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5106425987
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Baseball, Softball
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $556,570
- Expenses
- $401,893
- Assets
- $471,721
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GRAY BRECHIN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RACHEL BRAHINSKY (VICE PRESIDE)
- DOMINQUE BRAVO (BOARD MEMBER)
- GRAY BRECHIN (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Documenting and mapping all new deal public works across the USA, and providing information and discussion about the new deal. In the depths of the great depression, president franklin d. Roosevelt promised the american people a new deal. Over the decade 1933-43, a constellation of federally sponsored programs put millions of jobless americans back to work and helped to revive a moribund economy. The result was a rich landscape of public works across the nation, often of outstanding beauty, utility and craftsmanship. No city, town, or rural area was untouched by the new deal. Hundreds of thousands of roads, schools, theaters, libraries, hospitals, post offices, courthouses, airports, parks, forests, gardens, and artworkscreated in only one decade by our parents and grandparentsare still in use today. The long-term payoff from this public investment helped propel american economic growth after the world war and is still working for the american people today. Because these public works w
What it reported doing in 2025
We are building a national network of associates in every state to contribute site data, publicize the wealth of public works left by the new deal, and contribute to efforts at preservation of historic sites and artworks. If you would like to help us out, please get involved. To complete our work, we also need financial help from everyone who cares about preserving the new deal legacy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 41
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.6%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 98.3%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 7th 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: 50%; rating input score 50; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.8%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.6% of revenue deployed · 98.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $395K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.