Junior League of Greater Fort Lauderdale Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
590932711
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Phone
9544621350
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Women's Service Clubs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$131,915
Expenses
$109,519
Assets
$1,422,594
Liabilities
$47,437

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Katherine Bernardoni Tompkins (President)
  • Jennifer Wilson (Executive Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Katherine Bernardoni Tompkins (President)
  • Jennifer Wilson (Executive Vice President)
  • Kimm Sinho (Recording 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

Junior League of Greater Fort Lauderdale, Inc. (the League or Organization) is an organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women, and improving the community through effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. The Leagues purpose is exclusively educational and charitable. The Leagues support comes primarily from member dues and contributions.

What it reported doing in 2024

The League has trained thousands of women to address community needs and to take on leadership roles at every level. Community programs allow members to impact the community through direct involvement of volunteer time. Some of the current projects (program services) of the League are as follows: Food insecurity focuses on packing and serving meals for the homeless and organizing food drives for a local food pantry. Human Trafficking Awareness project is for members to develop and deliver a human trafficking awareness campaign to the community. Education for parents on this topic is lacking, according to the Broward Sherriffs office and the Broward Human Trafficking Coalition. The Child Fitness and Nutrition combines two programs to successfully address the obesity epidemic affecting children living in Broward County through nutrition education and the promotion of a physically active lifestyle. The programs consist of: (1) Hosting an annual field day at SOS Childerns village where volunteers engage children in a variety of fun and compertative events followed by a health lunch and (2) Kids in the Kitchen, a program where volunteers show children how to make a healthy snack and coordinate with engageing play activities. Done in a Day program is members coming together to target short term volunteer projects that can be accomplished in a single day. Projects have included, but are not limited to: Serving dinner at Broward Partnership for the Homeless; Organizing a field day for SOS Childrens Villages Florida; Sorting food at Feeding South Florida; Collecting and handing out gifts at the Salvation Army toy drive; Painting rooms at Henderson Behavioral Health; Building homes with Habitat for Humanity.

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 84% 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 available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 63
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 72
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 70.6%; rating input score 71
  • Program expense ratio: 66.8%; rating input score 67
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 12; 12th 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: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 17%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.99; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6.2% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -17% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 70.6% of revenue deployed · 66.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $73K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 12/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.