League of Women Voters of Virginia

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
546044318
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2023
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Annandale, VA, USA
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$47,417
Expenses
$63,514
Assets
$179,616

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

18 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Patricia Fege (Co-President)
  • Katherine Ingmanson (Co-President)
  • Cindy Kalkwarf (First Vice-President)
  • Jessica Storrs (Second Vice-President)

People named in this filing

  • Patricia Fege (Co-President)
  • Katherine Ingmanson (Co-President)
  • Cindy Kalkwarf (First Vice-President)

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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Educate voters regarding issues of public policy and voting

What it reported doing in 2023

Prepare and provide to members ten issues of the Fairfax Voter newsletter containing information for members and studies on issues such as voting election security redistricting environmental protection civil rights etc. Fairfax voter is available to the public on our website.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 74% for direct work, and 26% for grants.

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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 98
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 93.8%; rating input score 94

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -33.9%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.83; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 40.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $60K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2023
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.