United States Goon Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922786605
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4696828773
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $143,182
- Expenses
- $134,400
- Assets
- $10,441
- Liabilities
- $30
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Jesse Mason (Director)
- Jonathan Houston (Director)
- Christopher Casey (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our organization has formed for the purpose of aiding members of the Something Awful Forms Community (colloquially, the members are referred to as "Goons"). Our aid provides the community with funds for the purposes of purchasing food, medicine, aiding with rent/utility payments, or other unexpected emergency needs.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our organization helps the members of our community with funds for several other miscellaneous requests. Requests are submitted to our organization, and our directors and volunteers approve these requests so long as they are able to prove their membership in the community in good standing. Other requirements are that only a certain amount of funds can be given to each person to make sure that funding is given in as equitable a manner as possible. Based on data, in 2025 - an estimated 10% of expenses went to people who requested aid for other requests that did not fit in other categories. Around half of these costs were to cover debt servicing or credit card payments. Our organization believes that helping people with these type of monthly expenses helps people's monthly budget and prevents them from entering a debt spiral or drop into financial instability. Some of these other categories include pet care costs, home repair costs, childcare payments, school expenses, and moving expenses. In total, 63 people made a request that did not fit into the other categories and were helped with these miscellaneous requests.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.1%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 97.1%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.1%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 38.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 39% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 64.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.1% of revenue deployed · 97.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $130K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.