Milwaukee Women's Center

Legal name: The Milwaukee Women's Center Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
320211087
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Milwaukee, WI, US
Phone
(414) 449-4777
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,108,800
Expenses
$1,209,010
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$853,285

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

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRYAN HOUSE (PRESIDENT)
  • SHARON JORDAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • ANDREA MALLMANN-ELLIOTT (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • ANDREA MALLMANN-ELLIOTT (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $209,008 total reported compensation
  • MAUDWELLA KIRKENDOLL (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $177,150 total reported compensation
  • WILLIAM KOCH (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $145,723 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide individuals and families with advocacy and service to meet their basic needs so they may live in dignity.

What it reported doing in 2024

During 2024, the milwaukee women's center served 2,133 men, women, and shelter for individuals and families affected by domestic violence and homelessness; a 24-hour crisis hotline; food, clothing, toiletries, and personal care items; counseling and support groups to address domestic violence, substance use disorders, and healthy parenting; specialized services and support for children and older abused women; case management to help those in our care meet their housing, employment, legal, and other basic needs; batterers' prevention and intervention education; fatherhood programming; intensive outpatient substance use disorder treatment; and career appropriate free clothing and accessories to men and women seeking employment opportunities. Theshelter continued to operate 24/7 while other services wereprovided in small groups or remotely over the phone, via email, and through video conferencing.- 860 callers were provided telephone crisis intervention services to ensure immediate safety, short-term emotional support, assistance with shelter, legal information and advocacy, referrals for medical treatment, and ongoing counseling and group support.- 233 adults and children received emergency transportation, safe housing, support, and comprehensive domestic violence services through the milwaukee women's center domestic violence emergency shelter.-70 families experiencing homelenessness received safe shelter and assistance through the family support center emergency shelter.- 42 older women facing abuse received safe shelter and assistance through the older abused women's program.- 200 fathers enrolled in the milwaukee fatherhood fire program to become more effective and engaged partners.- 142 men participated in the nevermore batterer's prevention andintervention program to break the cycle of intergenerational violence.- 86 individuals striving to overcome substance use disorders received intensive outpatient treatment.- 500 individuals seeking new employment opportunities received free career-appropriate clothing through the bottomless closet.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 96% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 63
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 93.2%; rating input score 93
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 73.5%; rating input score 74; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -9%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -29.8% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $209K · 15 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $194K reported
  • Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.