Maryland Chapter National Organization for Women Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521163855
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Silver Spring, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3014120590
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,464
- Expenses
- $38,235
- Assets
- $131,449
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Barbara Hays (President)
- Sandy Ball (Executive Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Barbara Hays (President)
- Crystal Peters (Action VicePresident)
- Phebe Wood (Reproductive Justice Task Force Chair)
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 organization shall take action within the State of Maryland as a whole to further the purposes and policies of the National Organization for Women, through the coordination of chapter efforts and statewide functions and actions.
What it reported doing in 2024
Form 990-EZ, Part III, Statement of Program Accomplishmnets. Line 29: In addition to this crucial 2024 election with national races for the U.S. House and Senate, a constitutional amendment adding abortion rights to our state constitution on our ballot gave us the opportunity to plan ahead for grassroots development work we would need for the 2026 Mid-Term Elections. Our work in all areas of our state also focused on GOTV projects for Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris. In the spring we worked in statewide primary campaigns for two open U.S. House seats and numerous open state legislative races. For the latter, we produced a statewide "informational" voters' guide to these races, which we mailed to our members and distributed at primary campaign events. For the fall election and Question #1, our Reproductive Justice Task Force produced literature and buttons which we used statewide during the election campaign, especially on the Eastern Shore, in Baltimore City and Baltimore County, and in Carroll, Cumberland, and St. Mary's Counties in canvassing and GOTV work. In total, we distributed 12,000 palm cards statewide, and we mailed 2,500 voter guides in pre-primary work. We also distributed Maryland NOW promotional materials.
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 62% for direct work, 28% for grants, and 9% for member benefits.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 49.6%; rating input score 50
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -184%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.44; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.7% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 49.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.