We the People Media Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364352105
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2014
- Forms available
- Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Vocational, Technical Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,016
- Expenses
- $61,872
- Assets
- $18,109
- Liabilities
- $48,441
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EUGENE SCOTT (PRESIDENT)
- ETHAN MICHAELI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- MANER JEAN WILEY (DIRECTOR)
- SANDRA YOUNG (DIRECTOR)
- FRANCINE WASHNGTON (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 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Educational and charitable
What it reported doing in 2014
Trained and employed low-income public housing residents to write articles and distribute copies of residents journal
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.1%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.67; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -45.8% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 73.5% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.