Junior League of San Antonio Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
741272413
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
San Antonio, TX, USA
Phone
2102251861
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Women's Service Clubs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$406,108
Expenses
$441,688
Assets
$6,281,821
Liabilities
$687,979

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KRISTEN PALME (PRESIDENT)
  • ERINN WALKER (PRESIDENT-ELECT)

Highest reported compensation

  • SHELLEY WEBER (MANAGING DIRECTOR): $67,863 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

The junior league of san antonio, inc. Is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.

What it reported doing in 2024

The junior league of san antonio, inc. Is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable. We are proud to note that in the 2024-2025 league year 73% of our expenses went directly to serving our mission.we began the 2024-2025 league year by welcoming 43 women applicants to our new member program which offers a variety of community and fundraising projects, member engagement opportunities, trainings enhancing community awareness and mission related volunteer opportunities. From our founding in 1924, jlsa has instilled in our members a deeply felt duty to engage in voluntarism, women's leadership and meaningful community impact. We continued that legacy through the 2024-2025 league year with over 693 dedicated and committed members. The league featured 194 women serving as active placement members holding positions such as board of directors, appointed jobs and community volunteers. The variety of placements offered provide members with training, development, and learning opportunities in a wide range of areas including but not limited to fund development, communications, community, membership development, finance, research and development and so much more. The jlsa continues to improve our community year round through partnering with 30+ community agencies. Our volunteers in the 2024-2025 league year completed over 10,000 community volunteer hours through our done in a day projects. During these projects jlsa members are able to use their diverse and meaningful talents to meet immediate needs of a san antonio community non-profit. In addition to done in a day projects, jlsa assisted community partners through a variety of specific projects focused on areas pertaining to our mission and positions statements through volunteer hours, funds and providing programming.during 2024-2025 jlsa successfully held several fundraising events raising over $150,000 to support our community and our members through volunteer hours, trainings and other opportunities. Moving into our 102nd year, the junior league of san antonio is poised to continue our legacy of service to the greater san antonio community, as well as the women who commit their time and talents to creating a happier, more equitable city.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 63% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 72
  • Transparency & Controls: 87
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82.6%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 70.7%; rating input score 71
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.09 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: -8.8%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.22; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.4%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 82.6% of revenue deployed · 70.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $312K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $68K · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 22/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.