Compare
Opening the compare list…
- Up to four organizations.
- The first column is the baseline.
- Arrows show the difference from that column.
- Green is higher and red is lower.
- The color is a direction, not a judgment about which organization to fund.
- Grades are informational.
- They are not a recommendation, a rating of worthiness, or legal, tax, or giving advice.
How grades work
Financial health
Uses the latest year only when revenue, expenses, and net assets are all on the record, expenses are above zero, and revenue is not zero.
Operating margin is (revenue − expenses) / |revenue|: 50 points at 5% or more, 40 at zero or more, 25 at −10% or more, 10 at −25% or more, otherwise 0.
Net assets / expenses adds 50 points at 1 year or more, 35 at 0.5, 20 at 0.25, 10 at zero or more, otherwise 0.
A is 85–100, B is 70–84, C is 55–69, D is 40–54, and F is below 40.
Growth
Needs both a year-over-year change between two adjacent filed years and a compound annual growth rate across at least three revenue years and two years of span.
The starting revenue must be above zero.
CAGR scores 60 points at 8% or more, 45 at 3% or more, 30 at zero or more, 15 at −5% or more, otherwise 0.
Year-over-year scores 40 points at 8% or more, 28 at zero or more, 14 at −8% or more, otherwise 0.
The same A–F bands apply.
A missing span is Not enough data, not a low grade.
Efficiency
Program expenses divided by total expenses for the latest year, when both are filed and total expenses are above zero.
A is 85% or more, B is 75% or more, C is 65% or more, D is 50% or more, and F is below 50%.
A blank line is Not enough data.
Program expenses filed as $0 beside positive total expenses are shown as 0% and are not graded.
Transparency
Counted only after the organization record loads.
Ten checks are worth one point each: revenue, expenses, net assets, total assets, program expenses, at least three filing years, a website, a program or purpose description, tax status, and a completed news lookup.
A is 9–10, B is 7–8, C is 5–6, D is 3–4, and F is 0–2.
This grade measures how much of the record is filled in.
Public presence
Needs a completed news lookup with at least one headline.
Five headlines score 70, three or four score 55, and one or two score 40.
Positive adds 20, Neutral adds 10, Mixed adds 0, and Negative subtracts 15.
The total is kept between 0 and 100 and uses the same A–F bands.
No headlines, or a failed lookup, is Not enough data.