B-Word Worldwide Inc Bitch Media
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943360737
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5032825699
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Printing, Publishing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,226,245
- Expenses
- $1,240,896
- Assets
- $175,326
- Liabilities
- $97,492
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Rachel Sample (Executive Dir.): $47,958 total reported compensation
- KaeLyn Rich (Executive Dir.): $34,648 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide and encourage an engaged, thoughtful feminist response to mainstream and popular culture.
What it reported doing in 2020
Bitch Media effects positive change in portrayals of women and feminism in themedia. This is achieved through education and encouragement of critical thinking about messages put forth by commercial culture (movies, t.v., magazines, advertising, etc.). The vehicle for this education is a publication entitled "Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture," www.bitchmedia.org, Bitch Medias Popaganda and Backtalk Podcasts, the Bitch on Campus program that provides curriculum and speakers for colleges across North America, and finally the Bitch Media Fellowships for writers, a series of three month intensive writing fellowships whose goal is to develop, support and amplify emerging, diverse voices in feminist, activist, and pop culture media. These vehicles provide a range of voices that analyze the negative images of women and gender roles that are commonly propagated by the media and culture and also spotlight healthy alternatives. No attempt is made to present one unified position, but rather seek to help people think about the messages they are receiving and what may be wrong with them.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - 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: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.8%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 72.2%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.56; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.7%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.8% of revenue deployed · 72.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $896K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $48K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2010 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 10/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.