UltraViolet Action
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475180376
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2027804533
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $829,966
- Expenses
- $1,623,131
- Assets
- $1,196,193
- Liabilities
- $150,684
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- SHAUNNA THOMAS (BOARD MEMBER): $372,342 total reported compensation
- ARISHA HATCH (INTERIM EXE DIR): $206,465 total reported compensation
- SCOTT-ADJEI ERICA (Director of Dev.): $204,803 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ultraviolet action (uva) is a 501c4 organization. Ultraviolet action is the premier national organization advocating for gender justice issues using creative, strategic campaigning and digital-first organizing. Ultraviolet drives feminist cultural and political change by exposing the white supremacist patriarchy and creating the conditions for a more just and equitable world for all.
What it reported doing in 2025
Ultraviolet action provides the tools, training, and resources needed to support volunteer leaders, emerging activists, and allies on the ground to effectively advocate for change on urgent issues such as misogynist and racist disinformation, corporate accountability for antiwomen policies, and policy education and advocacy to address economic and health injustices impacting women. We leverage the educational work we do to run grass roots campaigns to pass or defend legislation that will benefit all of our lives. We highlight the voices and experiences of women of color, indigenous women, immigrants, and lgbtq people, to demand policy change and corporate accountability.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 87.2%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $18.94 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -95.6%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $372K · 13 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $128K reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.