Options for Women East
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411714652
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- St Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6517762328
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $412,170
- Expenses
- $329,515
- Assets
- $303,914
- Liabilities
- $143,073
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SARAH LOWRIE (PRESIDENT)
- VALENTINA RONNING (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER MEYER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER MEYER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $71,992 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Options for women east is a pregnancy medical clinic located on the eastside of st. Paul, mn. We serve the women in our community by offering no-cost pregnancy testing, sti testing and treatment, limited ultrasounds, education, and full prenatal care conducted in-house. Our programs are designed to empower women through a holistic approach that uses our entire team of staff and volunteers. We walk the entire pregnancy journey with them through their first year of life.
What it reported doing in 2024
Options for women east is a pregnancy medical clinic located on the eastside of st. Paul, mn. We serve the women in our community by offering no-cost pregnancy testing, sti testing and treatment, limited ultrasounds, education, and full prenatal care conducted in-house. Our programs are designed to empower women through a holistic approach that uses our entire team of staff and volunteers. We walk the entire pregnancy journey with them through their first year of life. In 2024 we completed over 1,800 services, in our privately owned clinic, including 25 deliveries by our volunteer doctors. We are able to reach so many women by partnering with area churches, businesses, private donors, and grant funds. Our philosophy is that every woman deserves great prenatal care regardless of race, socio-economic status, religion, or lack of insurance.
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 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.8%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 67.3%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 63rd 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: 20.1%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.8% of revenue deployed · 67.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $222K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $72K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.