League of Women Voters of Virginia Education Fund Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
541334464
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Richmond, VA, USA
Phone
8042146312
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$87,310
Expenses
$40,142
Assets
$97,189
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Joan Porte (President)

People named in this filing

  • Joan Porte (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The League of Women Voters Education Fund is a nonpartisan public policy educational organization which: 1. Builds citizen participation in the democratic process. 2. Studies key community issues at all governmental levels in an unbiased manner. 3. Enables people to seek positive solutions to public policy issues through education and conflict management.

What it reported doing in 2024

Grant funding from the Democracy Truth Project promotes essential work such as social media monitoring to inoculate voters against bad actors, training with local League leaders on combatting mis-and-disinformation, digital ads that promote accurate election info via VOTE411.org, and educational resources on how to become election observers and poll workers. In the most recent grant year, the Democracy Truth Project achieved the following: 7,527,036 people engaged online. 322,634 people engaged in person. 18,521 volunteers recruited. 4,620 educational events/rallies/forums hosted. 3,615 state and local partners engaged. 1,915 trainings held.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

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: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 78
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 45.8%; rating input score 46
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 54%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.42; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -19.7% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 19.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 45.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $40K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2019 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.