Tfi Digital Archive
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821159850
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2128821262
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Women's Studies
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $488,757
- Expenses
- $436,083
- Assets
- $240,070
- Liabilities
- $483,917
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATHLEEN LANDY (President and Treasurer)
People named in this filing
- PENNY LIEBMAN AARON (Director)
- AILEEN AGOPIAN (Director)
- DANIELLE ANDERMAN (Director)
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
The feminist institute is dedicated to collecting digitizing and sharing the rich history of feminist art humanities politics and business and making our online archive globally accessible
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024 the feminist institutes public programming continued to be predominantly online. Tfi presented programming about the documentation of feminist contributions to culture through documentary film print media and public discussion. Tfi entered the fourth of its 5-year strategic plan for establishing an online archival repository for digital records and a digital lab to process archival materials. The feminist institute continued to deepen its ongoing relationships with content partners to provide materials for the tfi digital archive.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.4%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 75.6%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
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: 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: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.8%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.02; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.4% of revenue deployed · 75.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $330K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 35 of 41 current checks pass · 6 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 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.
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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Advertising column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX FeesForServicesAccounting column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Insurance column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX PayrollTaxes column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Travel column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.