League of Women Voters of the City of New York

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
135590517
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2009–2018
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2018
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
2127253541
Rating
96
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Voter Education, Registration

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$58,865
Expenses
$66,431
Assets
$19,735
Liabilities
$249

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BETH KELLEY (Vice President)
  • CATHERINE GRAY (CO PRESIDENT)
  • RUTH ALTMAN (CO PRESIDENT)
  • CRYSTAL JOSEPH (Vice President)
  • DIANE BURROWS (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • BETH KELLEY (Vice President)
  • CATHERINE GRAY (CO PRESIDENT)
  • JESSICA WEINBERG (Treasurer)

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 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Lwvnyc is a non-partisan membership based organization that focuses on national, state, and local level public policy issues.

What it reported doing in 2018

Lwvnyc is a non-partisan membership based organization that focuses on national, state, and local level public policy issues.in fiscal year 2019, the organization supported the league of womens voters educational fund and had its annual meeting with several speakers who spoke on voter related issues.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 97.1%; rating input score 97

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -12.9%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $65K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2009 to 2018
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.