Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 951191834
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3103951308
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $229,638
- Expenses
- $218,140
- Assets
- $1,574,091
- Liabilities
- $57,875
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BECKY UPCHURCH (DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BECKY UPCHURCH (DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT)
- MARCIA STEIN (DIRECTOR, 1ST VP)
- HOLLY FRANKE (DIRECTOR, 2CD VP)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To enrich the lives of members and the community through our legacy of women's fellowship and charitable service, and through stewardship of our historic building to provide a place for social, educational, civic, and cultural programs & events.
What it reported doing in 2024
The santa monica bay woman's club (the club) is a membership organization that consists of 110 members. The club held 198 events for its members. These events were members as well as the community. These events included weekly card games (bridge and canasta), artists' league meetings, book club meetings, and a potluck dinner. At these events, donations from participants were collected and disbursed to select charitable organizations. For this fiscal year, 22 charitable organizations were the recipients of donations totaling $49,000. This includes funds collected from members at events as described, as well as funds from the club general accounts. In addition, $10,000 was awarded." the location of most of the club events is the clubhouse of the santa monica bay woman's club located in santa monica, built in 1914 and designated as a santa monica historical landmark in 1991. This clubhouse is not only used for most of the member events described above but also used or cultural, civic, educational social and other events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 64% for direct work, and 36% for grants.
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 the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.2%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 82.2%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 57%; rating input score 57; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 5%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.22; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.2% of revenue deployed · 82.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $179K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 57/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.