The San Diego Women's Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330907092
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6192352300
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $807,744
- Expenses
- $797,201
- Assets
- $6,355,367
- Liabilities
- $61,357
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEPHANIE COOK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KRISHNA KABRA (PRESIDENT)
- ROSETTE GARCIA (PRESIDENT-ELECT & GEC CO-CHAIR)
- JULIE MCKAY IMMEDIATE (PAST PRESIDENT (THRU 6/25))
Highest reported compensation
- STEPHANIE COOK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $168,921 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See schedule o. The san diego women's foundation connects, educates and inspires women to come together in collective philanthropy.the san diego women's foundation is a nonprofit public benefit corporation and is not organized for the private gain of any person. It is organized for charitable purposes. The specific purpose of the organization is to support san diego foundation by educating and inspiring women to engage in significant and sustainable philanthropy to strengthen the san diego region. The organization will make grants to other needy and/or deserving IRS section 501(c)(3) organizations which serve san diego county, thus furthering the mission of san diego foundation.
What it reported doing in 2024
See schedule o. The san diego women's foundation, while being a separate 501(c)(3), has chosen to have its assets managed by san diego foundation, its supported organization. The san diego women's foundation is a membership organization that is focused on philanthropic education, developing grant criteria, and monitoring the disbursement of annual grants of approximately $250,000. The san diego women's foundation has a standalone board of directors and board appointed committees. There are three staff members of san diego foundation who support the 200 plus volunteers of the san diego women's foundation.the organization will accomplish its goals by building a class of membership known as "contributing members". A woman may become a contributing member by pledging to contribute either $2,500 or $1,250 per year to the organization. Although contributing members will have no voting rights, they may provide input to the board of trustees of the organization as to (i) areas of need in san diego county and its neighboring communities and (ii) appropriate charitable recipients of grants and gifts from the organization. In this way, the organization will introduce women in san diego county to philanthropy and cultivate their ability to participate in all parts of the charitable giving process. The assets of the san diego women's foundation are held at san diego foundation, the supported organization. As of june 30, 2025, the value of these assets was $6,355,000. The primary granting priority for fiscal year 2025 was senior social isolation and loneliness. A total of $240,000 was granted to 4 community partnership grantees (non-profits). Since its founding in 2000, the san diego women's foundation has granted over $5.6 million to 155 community partner programs and built an endowment of $5.2 million. At the end of the fiscal year, the san diego women's foundation membership included 206 women from across the san diego county.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 51% for direct work, and 49% for grants.
- 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.8%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 69.2%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 51st 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.3%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.97; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.2%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.8% of revenue deployed · 69.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $551K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $169K · 19 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 11 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 40/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.