Assistance League of Wichita Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 480985922
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Wichita, KS, USA
- Phone
- 3166876107
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Gift Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $501,592
- Expenses
- $456,889
- Assets
- $1,976,796
- Liabilities
- $214,729
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MONA HOBSON (PRESIDENT)
- WILMA HART (3RD VICE-PRESIDENT MARKETI)
- BARB CARSON (4TH VICE-PRESIDENT MEMBERS)
- BARBARA HUBERT (5TH VICE-PRESIDENT STRATEG)
People named in this filing
- MONA HOBSON (PRESIDENT)
- CAROLYN RANGEL (1ST VP-PHILANTHROPIC)
- BRENDA SATTERLEE (2ND VP RESOURCE DEVELOPMEN)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The assistance league is a national nonprofit with a vision to empower volunteers to make lasting change through community-based philanthropic programs. We receive no united way funds, have no paid staff, and all funds remain in wichita. Locally, the assistance league has served wichita for over 40 years and supports four programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Assault survivor kits (ask) provides, through the wichita area sexual assault center, clothing, footwear, and hygiene items to men, women, and children who have been victims of sexual assault. Rather than leaving the hospital in paper scrubs after their clothing has been taken for investigation purposes, survivors are allowed to walk out with dignity in regular clothing. The program began in 1994. The number of individuals served over the years include 483 survivors of sexual assault served in 2019-2020, 405 served in 2020-2021, 129 served in 2021-22 , 172 served in 2022-23, 509 served in 2023-2024 and 897 served in 2024-2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 92% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.8%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 84.5%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 98.3%; rating input score 98; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.9%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.33; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.8% of revenue deployed · 84.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $386K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.