Step Up Women's Network

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
954701468
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
3232405003
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Film, Video

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,655,351
Expenses
$3,488,779
Assets
$2,787,585
Liabilities
$152,950

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

32 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DELORES MORTON (CEO)
  • VIVIANNE BOHORQUES (VICE PRESIDENT, STRATEGY & OPERATIONS)
  • JAMIE KOGAN (VICE PRESIDENT, DEVELOPMENT)
  • KATHRYN ROBINSON (VICE PRESIDENT, PROGRAMS)
  • ALISSA ZITO CRUZ (VICE PRESIDENT, COMMUNICATIONS)

Highest reported compensation

  • DELORES MORTON (CEO): $284,711 total reported compensation
  • VIVIANNE BOHORQUES (VICE PRESIDENT, STRATEGY & OPERATIONS): $152,543 total reported compensation
  • ALISSA ZITO CRUZ (VICE PRESIDENT, COMMUNICATIONS): $125,479 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

At step up, we offer in person after school and virtual summer mentoring programs for high school girls. In addition, we offer year round virtual mentoring programs for young women ages 18-29. (see schedule o)all girls and young women who participate in our programs come from communities with limitied resources or are facing systemic barriers. With the support of our programs and the mentoring connections we provide, they become confident, connected and career ready so that they can join the next generation of women leaders. 100% of step up participants have access to multiple mentors.

What it reported doing in 2025

Member programs: step up is able to deliver a high level of social-emotional support, career preparation, and mentorship through its network of highly engaged mentors. Step up ur member programs help the organization recruit new community members who will leverage their resources on behalf of step up girls. Fueled with this additional people power, step up ensures all girls are on the pathway to achieve high school and post-secondary success and have the access to information, opportunities, and resources that will help them pursue and achieve their unique dreams of success. In 2025, more than 600 step up mentors representing a variety of industries and backgrounds brought a depth and diversity of experience and expertise to step up girls across the country.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 84% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

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: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.5%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 81.9%; rating input score 82
  • Fundraising efficiency: $9.64 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th 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: 4.6%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 28.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 78.5% of revenue deployed · 81.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 25 of 25 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $285K · 32 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.