Foundation for Black Women's Wellness Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
460832901
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Madison, WI, USA
Phone
6083054422
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,769,771
Expenses
$3,400,468
Assets
$2,577,818
Liabilities
$219,761

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LISA PEYTON-CAIRE (PRESIDENT/CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • LISA PEYTON-CAIRE (PRESIDENT/CEO): $346,134 total reported compensation
  • JANINE STEPHENS HALE (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $157,290 total reported compensation
  • GABE DOYLE (CHIEF HEALTH INITIATIVES OFFICER): $145,136 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We exist to empower a generation of well black women by eliminating health disparities and other barriers that impact black women and girls. We energize, mobilize, and support black women and girls to live healthy, well, and thriving lives.

What it reported doing in 2024

During 2024, we continued to grow the reach of our programs, services, enterprise initiatives and health partnerships, and continued to make significant strides in serving the health and well-being needs of our community. We expanded our health and wellness and disease prevention programming and increased the number of women accessing and participating in health promotion and education in both in person and virtual settings. We successfully launched the social delta heart disease prevention and support project with our local federally qualified health center providing direct support and coordinated services to women at highest risk of uncontrolled blood pressure. We continued to grow our health improvement and advocacy work around black maternal and child health, doubling the numbers of women we are providing perinatal support and doula care services to; as well as increasing the number of doulas in our county through recruitment and training. We hosted the 5th virtual black maternal and child health summit to a statewide and national audience, growing our thought leadership and influence in driving viable solutions for maternal/child health improvement. Our community health initiatives department increased the number of county residents/families that we are providing direct services to through community health workers to stabilize housing, income, employment, and to secure resources, information and support to improve their health. Additionally, we hosted the third cohort of our statewide health equity leadership training program which had trained 42 women leaders across 8 counties in Wisconsin by fall 2024. Our statewide and national wellness ambassador members continue to grow, now totalling over 500. Further we advanced progress toward launching madison forward fund 2.0 / guaranteed income with city of madison partners -- and continued work with quartz health to prepare to launch Wisconsin's first commercially reimbursed doula services benefit.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 67
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 86
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 65.7%; rating input score 66
  • Program expense ratio: 72.3%; rating input score 72
  • Fundraising efficiency: $17.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 9.8%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 19.1%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 38.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 30.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 27.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 65.7% of revenue deployed · 72.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $346K · 8 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $456K reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.