Multicultural Women Executive Leadership Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
464379762
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2014
Location
La Verne, CA, USA
Phone
6263188679
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Reported finances

Revenue
$523,128
Expenses
$523,068
Assets
$49,780
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Yasmin Davidds (CEO)

People named in this filing

  • Yasmin Davidds (CEO)
  • Zulema Bastien (Vice-Chair of Board)
  • Maria Silva Palacios (Board Member)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Multicultural Women Executive Leadership Foundation is a non-profit organization that offers leadership and entrepreneurship training and development for multicultural women and men. Its focus is on strengthening the US economic landscape by leveraging multicultural women and mens cultural capital through customized gender and cultural education access to business capital mentorship and a support network. It accomplishes this by empowering multicultural women and men to develop leadership and entrepreneurial intelligence create jobs and develop leaders thus spawning a new generation of successfully sustainable multicultural high-level leaders and companies.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Executive Leadership Program for Multicultural Women is an intensive innovative 5-month immersion program that embraces the principles used in Harvard Universitys groundbreaking Authentic Leadership program. The program will: Fill the development pipeline with highly talented and capable women leaders to executive C-Suites at Fortune 500 Companies. Arm high-performing participants with the knowledge skills and tools to accelerate their development into the executive ranks for increasing optimal business performance. Provide culturally-relevant strategies that allow all program participants to step into higher leadership roles and promote the value of a diverse influence. Promote all women leaders as influential change agents who can align an organizations business initiatives with social responsibility. The Executive Leadership Program for Multicultural Women a program for all women is the first of its kind with the goal of addressing the sociocultural realities of todays emerging women leaders and is modeled after the highly successful Latina Global Executive Leadership Program. This curriculum based on state-of-the-art research is taught by University of Southern California USC faculty scholars and real-world practitioners with global insights to relevant experiences professional women leaders of all cultures face in the workplace.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 83% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $523K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.