Work-bites Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923673139
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9296100393
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Media, Communications Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $104,953
- Expenses
- $83,050
- Assets
- $21,996
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Joe (President)
People named in this filing
- Joe (President)
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
Work Bites' primary purpose is to cover the underreported news stories and workplace justice issues impacting working families throughout the Tri-State area and across the country.
What it reported doing in 2025
Work-Bites is an independent news outlet providing original daily coverage of underreported labor and workplace justice issues happening throughout the Tri-State Area and across the country. Year-to-date, Work-Bites.com has averaged 8.2K daily visits, with 9.9K page views. Our 7.1 unique visitor rate represents a 20% increase over the previous year. Larger news outlets regularly repost our stories, further amplifying our reach.
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 89% 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. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.6%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 99.3%; rating input score 99
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: 20.9%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 52.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 44.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 52.6% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 121.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.6% of revenue deployed · 99.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $82K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.