Voice of the People Action
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274267205
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2027447112
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Citizen Participation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $35,000
- Expenses
- $72,004
- Assets
- $244,060
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN PATRICK THOMAS (DIRECTOR): $61,077 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote the development of government sponsored agencies at the federal, state and local levels whose purpose is to create the means to discern citizen opinion on public policy issues and to report these findings to policy makers and citizenry.
What it reported doing in 2024
The corporation promotes the development of government sponsored agencies whose purpose is to discern citizen opinion on public policy
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 32
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 54
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 21.9%; rating input score 22
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 75%; rating input score 75; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -105.7%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.39; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45% of revenue deployed · 21.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $61K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.