The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 743055311
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4124344883
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Women's Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $384,997
- Expenses
- $498,710
- Assets
- $143,426
- Liabilities
- $49,017
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Vanessa Thompson (President)
- Dean Richards (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Camila Rivera-Tinsley (Executive Dir.): $130,325 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Women and Girls Foundation (WGF) is a non-profit organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania engaged in statewide programming and policy work. The mission of WGF is to achieve equality for women and girls, now and for generations to come. In pursuit of this mission, WGF breaks down barriers so that every girl can rise and every woman can soar. Our vision is for women and girls in PA to have equal access, oppurtunity, and influence in all aspects of their public and private lives. WGF's core programs include: GirlGov; Femisphere; and Paid Leave for Pennsylvania.
What it reported doing in 2024
Femisphere: COVID-19 and the succeeding economic inflation impacted everyone, but women, especially women of color are bearing a much bigger burden. Women are four times more likely than men to have lost work since the pandemic began. They also are more likely to be low-wage, front line workers, at greater risk of catching the virus, yet without access to paid family or medical leave. Covid-19 exposed our current system for being inequitable, inefficient, unhealthy, and unjust. In total, more than 2.3 million women were pushed out of the workforce in 2020 alone (National Womens Law Center, March 2021). Every day WGF is working with coalition partners, at the local, state, and federal levels, advocating for women to be central to economic recovery plans. This means family sustaining workplace policies including increases to the minimum wage, paid sick days, paid family leave, access to affordable healthcare, transportation, and child care.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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.
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: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $39.95 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -29.5%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.1%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 82.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $411K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $130K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.