Hypatia Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262868769
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Ventura, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7866574506
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,333
- Expenses
- $27,623
- Assets
- $332,760
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- FALGUNI SHETH (CHAIR)
- LAURIE SHRAGE (TREASURER)
- ALISON STONE (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of hypatia is to foster feminist scholarship in philosophy and related fields. At present, hypatia (wa) does this primarily through the publication of the academic journal hypatia, a journal of feminist philosophy.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hypatia, a journal of feminist philosophy was established as an autonomous journal in 1986. Hypatia is the primary venue for publishing scholarly work in feminist philosophy, construed broadly to include a diversity of methodologies, schools of thought, and perspectives.hypatia reaches a broad audience and has an international distribution. Hypatia is available at over 4,900 libraries and over 3,600 libraries have access to back content through ebsco. An additional 7,600 estimated libraries in the developing world have access to hypatia through their philanthropic program. With electronic distribution, the journal is reaching a wide interdisciplinary and international audience which includes students at all levels as well as faculty and researchers. Those who benefit from the publication program supported by hypatia (wa) include a broad readership as well as all the authors whose scholarly work appears in the journal. Those engaged in the work of the journal include a core group of editors and managing editors, and an extended community of approximately 450 scholars who participate in various aspects of the journal's activities. Excluding the editors and editorial office staff, we estimate that 450 volunteers (board members, advisors, and reviewers) contribute their time and expertise to hypatia every year. Although the impetus for founding hypatia came from the dispersed, informal chapters of the society for women in philosophy, hypatia is not formally affiliated with any professional society or institution. It is hypatia (wa) that provides the framework of a nonprofit entity within which hypatia, a journal of feminist philosophy, can operate and provide the services described above to feminist students, teachers, and researchers in philosophy and a range of cognate fields.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 85
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 39.6%; rating input score 40
- Program expense ratio: 95.7%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 54.2%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.05; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 39.6% of revenue deployed · 95.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $26K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 40/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.