UltraViolet Education Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471872208
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2027804533
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Women's Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,110,582
- Expenses
- $2,713,764
- Assets
- $3,000,689
- Liabilities
- $286,374
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- SHAUNNA THOMAS (BOARD MEMBER): $372,342 total reported compensation
- ARISHA HATCH (INTERIM EXE DIR): $206,465 total reported compensation
- SCOTT-ADJEI ERICA (Director of Develo): $204,803 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ultraviolet education fund (uvef) is a 501c3 organization. Ultraviolet is the premier national organization advocating for gender justice issues using creative, strategic campaigning and digital-first organizing. Ultraviolet drives feministcultural and policy change by exposing the white supremacist patriarchy and creating the conditions for a more just and equitable world for all.
What it reported doing in 2025
Uvef leads longterm culture and policy change by unifying millions of people to shine a spotlight on the urgent issues such as misogynist and racist disinformation, corporate accountability for anti-women policies, and policy education and advocacy to address economic and health injustices impacting women. We work to hold the media, corporations, boards of directors, and influential people accountable to all women. Through a combination of online and on-the-ground strategies, along with high-profile media strategies such as tv ads, we call out those spreading and enabling disinformation, and demand institutional policy changes to eliminate the spread of disinformation, and to create policies that benefit all women. We offer resources in the form of toolkits, webinars, media, community, and accessible data, for more women to lead, organize, and advocate for change in their communities. Through our robust digital tools and campaign strategy, we have exposed the often hidden epidemic of gender-based violence and created a standard for believing survivors; protected access to affordable, comprehensive health care; advocated for economic justice for black women, indigenous women, women of color, and low-income women and fought against the criminalization and dehumanization of bipoc women, immigrant women, and transgender people. Our educational materials reach millions of people every month on social media.
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.
- 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 85.7%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -28.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 56.9%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $372K · 13 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.