Liabilities / Assets
61st percentile
Higher debt load relative to assets than 61% of similar nonprofits.
Precomputed percentiles for this filing year versus similar nonprofits in the same peer cohort.
Liabilities / Assets
61st percentile
Higher debt load relative to assets than 61% of similar nonprofits.
Liabilities / Revenue
58th percentile
Higher debt load relative to revenue than 58% of similar nonprofits.
Net Margin
20th percentile
Higher net margin than 20% of similar nonprofits.
Top Officer Pay
84th percentile
Higher top officer pay than 84% of similar nonprofits.
Top officer pay equals 10.4% of source-year revenue.
Asset Growth
16th percentile
Faster asset growth than 16% of similar nonprofits.
Revenue Growth
36th percentile
Faster revenue growth than 36% of similar nonprofits.
Assets
Flat$46,866
Flat from 2014
Net Assets
$46,463
No earlier filing loaded for comparison.
Liabilities
Flat$403
Flat from 2014
Revenue
Flat$147,758
Flat from 2014
Expenses
Flat$162,788
Flat from 2014
Net Income
Flat-$15,030
Flat from 2014
Our organization engages in building movements by advancing the strategic use and collective control of technology for local struggles, global transformation, and emancipation without borders.
To provide communications and technology services to nonprofit organizations.
| Description | Grants | Expenses |
|---|---|---|
| Highlights of the year include: Our first ever series of People Links - conference call based meetings with members on a variety of topics. So far we have organized ones on Gender in Technology and another on Net Neutrality; Attended US Social Forum national coordinators meetings in January (Philadelphia) and May (Jackson, MI) as well as attending bi-weekly meetings for various committees; Attended Media Access Grassroots Network coalition in July as well as monthly phone calls; Presented on Internet Privacy at Rights Con conference (March); Participated in Knowledge Exchange in Washington DC with the Center for Media Justice and Consumers Union on the topic of Internet Rights and Surveillance; Attended Jackson Rising Alternative Economy conference in Jackson, MS; Presented workshop on the role of the Internet for revolutionary work at the Left Forum, included three presenters participating remotely from Mexico City; Presented at workshop at the Working Class Studies Association conference (State University of NY in Stoneybrook) in June; In collaboration with the Center for Media Justice and Free Press, we organized a full-day meeting at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit on the topic of Racial Justice and Surveillance attended by over 75 people; We organized a day-long session in Barcelona, as part of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) membership meeting, on how to defend activists from denial of service attacks - both technical and legal. This meeting has led to a project to build a distributed system among APC members to protect our members; Launched our federated social networking site (https://social.mayfirst.org/) - providing integration with Twitter, but defending data sovereignty of our members; Continue to upgrade and improve our ownCloud server (https://share.mayfirst.org) - providing ability for members to synchronize their data (files, calendar and contacts) via their phone or desktop computer with a MF/PL protected server; elected leadership organized a 20 person Movement School with members from both the US and Mexico to study the role of Communications and the Internet in the movement | $147,759 | $141,316 |
| Name | Title | Full / Part Time | Base | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alfredo Lopez | President | FT | $15,400 | - | $15,400 |
| James McClelland | Treasurer | PT | $0 | - | - |
| Josue Guillen | Vice President | - | $0 | - | - |
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