Ohio Womens Bar Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364637118
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6142042557
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Grantmaking Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $26,453
- Expenses
- $76,230
- Assets
- $97,672
- Liabilities
- $30,824
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Elizabeth Shaffer (President)
- Amber Merl (Vice President)
- Heather Renee Adams (Immediate Past President)
People named in this filing
- Elizabeth Shaffer (President)
- Amber Merl (Vice President)
- Amanda Karn (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The OWBF operates exclusively to perform educational and charitable functions of and to carry out the educational and charitable purposes of the Ohio Women's Bar Association
What it reported doing in 2024
The OWBF manages a six month Leadership Institute. The purpose of the Leadership Institute is to offer training to women attorneys practicing 5 years or more to help advance their careers within the legal industry.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 74% for direct work, and 26% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 37.2%; rating input score 37
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: -188.2%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 37.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.