Red Wine & Blue

What it reported doing in 2024

See schedule ocontent creation and narrative building: red wine & blue uses content creation and media to engage, empower, and organize sburban women. We produce live events, videos, graphics, a podcast, and more. Our content meets women where they are and makes them feel seen, heard, and inspired. To increase the viral nature of our content, we make it fun, heartfelt, and humorous so they feel safe and proud to share it with their networks.community-building and friend-to-friend organizing: many women feel like outsiders, but most are trusted community insiders, with extensive networks bridging many different communities and interests. We connect women to each other through our online and in-person training and events and support their organizing at the local level, including through our distributed organizing program, troublenation. Red wine & blue members, in turn, share our resources across their networks and become trusted messengers who increase red wine & blue's reach and generate additional new members and volunteers.research confirms that friend-to-friend relational organizing is the most effective way to spread a message and move people to action. Red wine & blue helps women build the confidence and civic muscle to tap these relational networks through non-traditional content and training that help them realize their power to influence the people they know.look ahead: in 2025, red wine & blue will expand its prescence nationally and in our focus states by organizing locally to combat extremism. We will build lasting, organizing, and communications infrastructure at the local level for suburban women to combat disinformation and protect our rights.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 78.5%; rating input score 78
• Program expense ratio: 92.1%; rating input score 92
• Fundraising efficiency: $54.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• 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: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: Fail
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Fail
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 15.2%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 31.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 32.2% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 47.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings