Fems for Democracy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842661613
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Royal Oak, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2489905188
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,663
- Expenses
- $44,402
- Assets
- $112,729
- Liabilities
- $817
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Julie Campbell-Bode (President)
People named in this filing
- Julie Campbell-Bode (President)
- Lori Goldman (Director)
- Gina Muccino-Keller (Secretary)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Fems for Democracy is organized and operated exclusively for social welfare purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as now enacted or hereafter amended. Fems for Democracy's objectives include promoting community welfare and providing community education in Michigan by increasing voter participation through research, voter education, voter registration, and voter mobilization; increasing voter awareness of public policy issues through educational means; defending human and civil rights such as the right to vote.
What it reported doing in 2024
Fems for Democracy co-hosted an event to inspire and ignite the community? s passion of pay equity and voter participation. The community was invited to a Michigan premiere of a documentary film, followed by a Question and Answer session with the film's producer and director.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.4%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 17.7%; rating input score 18
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -412.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.54; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.5%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.7% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -141.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -19.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.4% of revenue deployed · 17.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $8K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.