Track Two - An Institute for Citizen Diplomacy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943191340
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Mill Valley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4155634731
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Exchange, N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $364,615
- Expenses
- $377,440
- Assets
- $171,068
- Liabilities
- $43
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dulce W Murphy (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Carol Miskel (Secretary): $65,066 total reported compensation
- Virginia Thomson (Director): $59,250 total reported compensation
- Dulce W Murphy (President): $24,322 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Track Twos mission is to provide non-governmental change agents, visionaries in a variety of fields, with the tools, safe havens and support to foster and strengthen alliances that give rise to cross-border collaboration and peace-building networks. We do this by convening participants from across our areas of work in smallgatherings and we cultivate the connections these gatherings create.Our core participants include journalists, artists and performers, educators, mediators, students, writers, business and nonprofit leaders, psychologists, scientists, lawyers, and philosophers. We identify priority areas of concern in our-chief geographic areas of focus, gather the relevant thinkers and experts, and provide them with the safe and conducive spaces to address those issues. We plan meetings and conferences that encourage innovative thinking, support the exploration of shared priorities, and help our participants -- new and seasoned citizen diplomats -- to design and execute novel collabor
What it reported doing in 2025
Since 1980, Track Two: An Institute for Citizen Diplomacy worked closely with theformer Republics of the Soviet Union and Russia and has convened influencers fromcountries in conflict in immersion workshops and conferences. These conferencesstimulate discussions, forge relationships and activate networks that completeprojects and influence publics towards greater peace. These networks have establishedformal partnerships in peace building, space exploration, culture, journalism, thevisual arts and health care.In 2025, Track Two has: Convened 8 meetings online to discuss strategy, status of variousenvironmental projects, to re-engage with previously "lost" network membersConvened an in-person meeting of 34 individuals for five days to create plansfor post-war citizen diplomacy activities between Russia, the former Soviet States and the USPrepared in-depth reports on our activitiesCreated an Adobe Express presentation sharing our work with new partner prospectsContinued work on the history of Track Two for publication in 2026/2027Organized the Track Two Archive and engaged with Stanford University and the Internet Archive, both of which will assume these archives in 2026 and 2027.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 42
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.5%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 82.2%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $12,055.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 100; 100th 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: 55.6%; rating input score 56; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.5%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 41%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.5% of revenue deployed · 82.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $310K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $65K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.