Sophia of Waukesha Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201644245
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Waukesha, WI, USA
- Phone
- 4144186086
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Federated Giving Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $45,784
- Expenses
- $107,376
- Assets
- $49,985
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SUSAN MINGESZ (PRESIDENT)
- JIM BICKEL (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SUSAN MINGESZ (PRESIDENT)
- JIM BICKEL (VICE PRESIDENT)
- RAY KNUTILLA (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Sophia is dedicated to dialogue with individuals, agencies and public officials to stimulate creative and effective efforts to improve our communities in waukesha county. Sophia addresses social injustices in our increasingly fragmented world. We join hands with others to bring effective change rather than isolated self interest.
What it reported doing in 2025
Criminal justice: sophia's criminal justice task force (cjtf) continues to advance meaningful conversations and action around justice reform in waukesha county and across the state of Wisconsin. Meeting monthly, the group brings together community members who believe our justice system can be more fair and humane. The cjtf's work centers on three key goals: educating the public and faith communities about criminal justice reform, engaging legislators and other decision-makers through consistent issue-based communication, and building grassroots support that can sustain long-term change. One ongoing effort has been sending monthly letters to policymakers addressing issues such as diversion vs. Incarceration, solitary confinement, affordable family phone access for incarcerated individuals, and the importance of strong reentry support. Education and collaboration have also been a major part of this year's work. The task force hosted an inspiring educational event featuring talib akbar, who spoke about the realities and impact of solitary confinement. Members also participated in transformational criminal justice training led by mark rice, Wisconsin transformational justice campaign coordinator at wisdom. The cjtf has also built connections with carroll university, collaborating with a grant writing class and presenting to criminal justice students. In addition, we partnered with wisdom affiliate free, an organization that supports directly impacted women and girls in shaping humane policies and practices related to incarceration and justice reform.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 70%; rating input score 70
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -134.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 70% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $75K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.