Gfwc Thompson Falls Womans Club Dba Tfwc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
810417307
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Thompson Falls, MT, USA
Phone
4068273521
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Women's Service Clubs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$765,777
Expenses
$36,150
Assets
$1,286,348
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LORRAINE RENARD (President)
  • LESLEY FAGERBERG (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • LORRAINE RENARD (President)
  • LESLEY FAGERBERG (Vice President)
  • MARSHA HART (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of the thompson falls woman's club is to provide improvement through volunteer service that benefits our community and the world around us, and provide activities supporting educational endeavors through reading programs, scholarships, and other community-based projects.

What it reported doing in 2024

The general federation of womens clubs (gfwc) is a womens organization that focuses on community improvement through volunteer service. The gfwc thompson falls womans club activities include: community service programs and projects that center on seven key areas - advocating for children: arts & culture; civic engagement & public outreach; domestic violence awareness & prevention; education & libraries; environment; and health & wellness.other activities include developing the organizations members through programs and projects related to leadership; membership; communication & public relations; fundraising; citizenship, community development & involvement; and a personal growth reading program called epsilon sigma omicron (eso).past and current examples of activities include but are not limited to adopt-a-hwy clean-up; creating as well as providing books for a local library; sponsoring a reading program for the elementary schools; providing scholarships; attending conferences and workshops; providing provisions and staffing for local food bank; and fundraising for obtaining radar feedback signs along the towns main street; construction of community swimming pools; park benches; and saving the old sanders county jail from becoming a parking lot so the facility could become a museum thus preserving the towns, as well as the countys, historical information.various members of the organization volunteer and participate as their lifes schedules allow. Each program or project has a chairman whose responsibility is to organize, staff, execute, and report the volunteer hours, any expenditures, or donations involved with an activity.the gfwc thompson falls womans club has been servicing western Montana since 1921 with its primary focus within the city of thompson falls and western sanders county.approximately 80% of the organizations time is involved with volunteer service programs and projects while 15% goes for fundraising to support the programs or projects.examples of current and past fundraising are creating and selling cookbooks from membership's recipes; creating and selling calendars, yard / rummage sales, donations for silent auctions; quilt raffles; applying for grants; and community donation match challenges. Only actual expenses to support the fundraiser are subtracted from the receipts; 100% of the profit is dedicated to the declared purpose of the fundraiser as advertised to the public.further support of the organization will provide activities for the development of women within the community; thus, empowering them to provide better living conditions for themselves and others within the community as well as raising awareness about womens rights and other related womens issues.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 72% for direct work, and 28% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 48
  • Transparency & Controls: 81
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 96
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 7.3%; rating input score 7
  • Program expense ratio: 99.3%; rating input score 99
  • Fundraising efficiency: $3,369.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 73.3%; rating input score 73; 33rd 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: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 95.3%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 35.58; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 131.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 46.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 86.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 7.3% of revenue deployed · 99.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $36K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 16 of 18 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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: Mission deployment rate scored 7/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.