The League of Women Voters of Texas
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823439854
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5124721100
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $912,153
- Expenses
- $935,260
- Assets
- $1,052,291
- Liabilities
- $20,562
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Joyce LeBombard (President)
- Charlotte McKenzie (Vice-President)
- Elisabeth McNamara (Vice-President)
- Aileen McMurrer (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Aileen McMurrer (Executive Director): $72,666 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empower voters and defend democracy in Texas. Provide support to local Leagues and support the development of new local chapters.
What it reported doing in 2024
Nonpartisan Community Education for Texas Voters: Voters turn to the League for unbiased, nonpartisan election information ahead of every election. Information on election processes and what will be on the ballot are easily accessible with printed Voters Guides at local libraries as well as on VOTE411.org and the League website online. We translate the Voters Guide into Spanish, Simplified Chinese, and Vietnamese to ensure new citizens can read it on VOTE411.org in the language they are most comfortable with. We use cutting-edge technology to reach voters across Texas. Voters still find the Voters Guide in print in libraries and community centers; it is also easily viewed by phone, tablet, or computer on LWVTexas.org and at VOTE411.org. We promote voting and elections with QR codes, text reminders, and on social media with videos and graphics. During the 2023 Constitutional Amendment Elections, our explainer videos were viewed more than one million times. In 2024, we distributed more than 175,000 printed Voters' Guides, and the Guides were accessed over 940,000 times on VOTE411. Leveraging a grant, we collaborated with Leagues in the Houston area to deliver more than 800,000 guides to voters' homes or through community centers. See Schedule O.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 83% 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.5%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 90.1%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $29.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.5%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.13; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.8%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 34.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.5% of revenue deployed · 90.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $843K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $73K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Fund balance restriction sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.