Rhonda Walker Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 352197960
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Phone
- 3132631676
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,191,897
- Expenses
- $1,185,712
- Assets
- $735,329
- Liabilities
- $47,612
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RHONDA WALKER (PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER)
- RUSELDA VILLANUEVA JOHNSON (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- RUSELDA VILLANUEVA JOHNSON (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $189,112 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To empower inner-city teen girls towards becoming strong, confident, and moral future leaders
What it reported doing in 2024
Mentoring and community outreach - the foundation understands that it is important that teens have positive role models in adults with whom they can discuss their challenges, successes, and future goals. Each year, the foundation matches teens with a carefully screened professional mentor who provides support and critical guidance. Although the foundation asks its volunteer mentors to commit for one year, the bond becomes strong enough so that they stay to see their mentee through high school. It is this spirit of giving back that the foundation strives to instill in every teen who is a part of the "girls into women" program. See schedule o for additional information about this program.through the foundation's community service and outreach programs, these teens volunteer at local charities, work with the homeless, create gifts for ailing children, and visit elders in nursing homes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.5%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 79.8%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.5%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.9%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.5% of revenue deployed · 79.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $946K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $189K · 17 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.