Southwest Indigenous Women's Coaltion

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
141975548
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Mesa, AZ, USA
Phone
4808187518
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$667,943
Expenses
$1,164,323
Assets
$474,375
Liabilities
$840,171

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARY HOWE (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • LORENA HALWOOD (TREASURER)
  • MARY HOWE (PRESIDENT)
  • CARRIE IMUS (VICE PRESIDE)

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 increase the capacity of indigenous communities to address and respond to violence through education, training, technical assistance, policy advocacy, and culturally supportive services.

What it reported doing in 2024

The organization increased their staff to 8 employees. They trained 961 individuals. They trained 312 domestic and sexual violence advocates. They trained 697 non-trial domestic and sexual violence advocates. The types of training included regional, statewide, 40-hours and webinars. They provided tailored onsite and virtual technical assistance to 2 tribal domestic & sexual violence nonprofits, 1 native llc, and 1 non-tribal statewide domestic and sexual violence coalition. They conducted 5 tribal site visits to identify training, technical assistance, and policy advocacy needs. Presented to 2 tribal councils. Provided circle of community healing gatherings in 3 tribal communities. Conducted annual swiwc membership/stakeholder meeting. Distributed 611 covid prvention kits to 14 domestic and sexual violence programs.provided 9 virtual tribal advocate talking sessions. Conducted 2 site visits to non-tribal domestic violence programs. Attended and convened pertinent meetings with agencies addressing systemic barriers to ending violence against women, girls, men, boys, and the lgbtq+/two- spirit community. Conducted virtual sexual assault awareness month resource zoom sessions throughout april. Conducted virtual domestic violence awareness month resource zoom sessions throughout october. Participated in 19 tribal and non-tribal community outreach events with 568 people signing swiw'c exhibit booth sign in sheet. Social media views: 49k reach: 24k content interaction. Email broadcast sent: 10,840 opened: 3,821. Conducted 2 regular board meetings.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 99% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 16
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 82.9%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -74.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.77; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 82.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $965K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.