Opening Doors for Women in Need

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
200815148
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Fort Worth, TX, USA
Phone
8179209326
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Family Violence Shelters

Reported finances

Revenue
$396,109
Expenses
$328,015
Assets
$801,450
Liabilities
$4,299

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Linda Morgan (Board President)
  • Sonjia Dickerson (Board Vice President)
  • Sandra Stanley (CEO)
  • LaCisha Creer (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • LaCisha Creer (Executive Director): $51,000 total reported compensation
  • Sandra Stanley (CEO): $44,660 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Opening Doors for Women in Need is a faith-based nonprofit organization for created with the purpose to provide needed services for women who have experienced emotional trauma that has led to pain and suffering.

What it reported doing in 2025

ODWINs Transitional Reentry Program supports women post-incarceration with safe housing employment assistance counseling and self-improvement resources. In 2025 the program excelled. Housing stability exceeded expectations hosting 12 residents with a waitlist. Five participants graduated all securing housing: 60% independent living 40% shared housing. Phase II Shared Housing Program is at full capacity. Nehemiah Project Job Readiness Program readies individuals with criminal histories for employment by enhancing resumes interview skills and job search techniques. It aids in obtaining identification records and work attire partnering with local businesses for job opportunities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 62
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 57
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 61.5%; rating input score 62
  • Program expense ratio: 74.1%; rating input score 74
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: 17.2%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.44; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 29.2%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 61.5% of revenue deployed · 74.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $243K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $51K · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 43 of 44 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.