Red Wine & Blue Education Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871115877
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Cleveland, OH, USA
- Phone
- 2168683792
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,945,705
- Expenses
- $2,591,563
- Assets
- $2,649,686
- Liabilities
- $843,217
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STACY KRAMER (PRESIDENT)
- KATHERINE PARIS (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- KATHERINE PARIS (CEO): $165,462 total reported compensation
- LAFONDA COUSIN (COO): $133,440 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Red wine & blue education fund empowers suburban women and women-led grassroots groups with organizing and communications tools, training, and support to combat disinformation and protect democracy.
What it reported doing in 2024
See schedule oeducational campaigns: red wine & blue education fund uses educational campaigns to inform and empower suburban women to speak up for the values they hold. Rwbef campaigns provide answers to faqs about these important topics including fun explainers and creative opportunities for engagement.no-judgement events: rbwef hosts events for parents and community members to ask questions and learn about issues and the experiences of people whose life experiences are different than their own. We strengthen our democracy by sharing personal stories and through conversations.look ahead: through an ever-growing network of partnerships and relationships on the ground, red wine & blue education fund will expand its creative campaigns and events to empower even more women to speak up for their values and protect democracy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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 - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.6%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $72.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd 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: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- 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: 34.3%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.2%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 37.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 38.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 55.8% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.6% of revenue deployed · 90.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $165K · 6 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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: 6 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.