Fos Feminista Action Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923065566
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2122140290
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Reproductive Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,000,000
- Expenses
- $909,360
- Assets
- $382,808
- Liabilities
- $111,309
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GISELLE CARINO (PRESIDENT, CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- GISELLE CARINO (PRESIDENT, CEO): $496,449 total reported compensation
- CHRISTINE GARRISON ROSARIO (TREASURER, CFO): $327,994 total reported compensation
- CHRISTINE RICARDO (LEAD, LEGAL AFFAIRS): $235,891 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To advocate for laws and governmental policies to improve the lives of women, girls, and gender-diverse people, and achieve gender and reproductive justice.
What it reported doing in 2024
Fs feminista action collaborated with five organizations in latin america and the caribbean to present evidence-based arguments to lawmakers on the importance of ensuring that women, girls, and others have access to comprehensive, quality reproductive health services, and to carry out public education efforts to build public support for such laws.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 50% for direct work, and 50% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.2%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 99.2%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Pass
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.3%; rating input score 99; 49th 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.1%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 51.6%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 45.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 28.6% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -20.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.2% of revenue deployed · 99.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $902K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $496K · 9 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.