We Vote USA
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811052585
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Oakland, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4155168777
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Citizen Participation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $34,750
- Expenses
- $34,724
- Assets
- $516
- Liabilities
- $626
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Jenifer Fernandez Ancona (Chair)
- Dale John McGrew (Secy, Treas, ED)
- Anat Shenker-Osorio (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We Vote is building the next generation of voting tech. We're creating a digital voter guide informed by issues you care about and people you trust. Through our nonpartisan, open source platform, we'll help you become a better voter, up and down the ballot.
What it reported doing in 2024
The purposes for which the corporation is organized are to promote social welfare within the meaning of section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code, including but not limited to: Developing and advocating for legislation, regulations, and government programs to educate voters, as well as the creation of educational tools on the internet that allow users to -- 1) search nonpartisan, unbiased information about state and local ballot measures and legislative issues, to include information provided by League of Women Voters and politicians' voting histories as well as history of the vote in U.S., current voting statistics, and importance of civic engagement, 2) connect with their social media contacts and encourage them to make a plan for how to get themselves and their friends to the polling place on Election Day, 3) connect with their social media contacts and share ideas about ballot and legislative issues. This will not include information about how users actually intend to vote. This is intended to educate and increase voter turnout.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.8%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 79.9%; rating input score 80
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: 0.1%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.21; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.8% of revenue deployed · 79.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- 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 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.