Grace Women Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270206157
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Shrewsbury, PA, USA
- Phone
- 8663113102
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $408,156
- Expenses
- $399,677
- Assets
- $194,241
- Liabilities
- $188,997
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- La Tascha Brown (President)
People named in this filing
- La Tascha Brown (President)
- Caroline Jiang (Treasurer)
- Kathryn Lifson (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
To encourage womens discipleship around the world by initiating, facilitating, and funding events and activities; laying groundwork, training, and teaching classes; and providing resources that biblically teach or train women; in addition, to support financially those missionary-minded women just discovering, actively training towards, or furthering these said goals. In while pursuing the above endeavors, to maintain an attitude of "the good samaritan and thus if passing by a critical need to be careful to maintain good works, thus physically and/or financially assisting so that our good would not be ill spoken of due to its blindness or indifference.
What it reported doing in 2024
Up & out up & out is a joint program that was formed in partnership with another organization, york teen haven, for the purposes of helping to mentor and disciple the next generation as they transition into adulthood. The purpose of the program is to provide opportunity and nurture as each individual develops into his/her full potential. Functions of the program may include mentoring, tutoring, missionary travel, ministry training, financial help, employment advisement, academic training programs, and on a discretionary basis, meeting some of their financial needs. The program name is indicative of the direction we hope for these individuals: that we would give them a leg up so that they can go out and a make a difference in the next generation.
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 93% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 41
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.4%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 84.7%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.84 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- 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: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.1%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.97; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.4% of revenue deployed · 84.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $338K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.