The People's Port Authority
Legal name: The Peoples Port Authority
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 884041998
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Providence, RI, USA
- Phone
- 4012804059
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $143,474
- Expenses
- $206,002
- Assets
- $122,462
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELLEN TUZZOLO (PRESIDENT/CHAIR THROUGH 8/25)
- MONICA HUERTAS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MONICA HUERTAS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $120,135 total reported compensation
- ELLEN TUZZOLO (PRESIDENT/CHAIR THROUGH 8/25): $15,700 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The people's port authority is an environmental justice community organization led by residents of south providence and Washington park to educate, mobilize, and support our community members that are directly impacted by environmental racism. The legacy of extraction, colonialism, and slavery that results in the concentration of toxic industries and pollution in black, brown, indigenous, communities of color causing disproportionate harm, health crises, and early death among their residents. Our mission is to educate our community about the facilities in our neighborhoods that threaten our well being, mobilize the community to resist the expansion of these facilities, urge government decision-makers to shut them down and implement community oversight, and support each other as our lives are constantly under attack by systemic injustice.
What it reported doing in 2025
Youth program - this program enriches the participants' lives and stimulates the local economy by paying for local childcare services and local lodging and paying people for their time and effort towards the program. Calle la paz provides the opportunity for young folks to work and learn in puerto rico. Over the course of two weeks, they will begin to understand environmental justice, develop an understanding of community resilience, and engage in solidarity work with local farmers. They will develop solidarity by engaging in farming with local farmers who live in the western mountains of puerto rico, las marias. Developing a deep understanding of community resilience, students will understand how the community of rio caas arriba used available resources to respond to, withstand, and thrive from 500 years of colonization, hurricanes, and more.
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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.4%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 67.1%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,434.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -43.6%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 65.9%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 96.4% of revenue deployed · 67.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $138K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $120K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.