Virginia Women in Wine

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
991722247
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Unionville, VA, USA
Phone
5402870348
Rating
50
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues

Reported finances

Revenue
$49,030
Expenses
$41,980
Assets
$33,028
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Megan Hereford (President)
  • Jen Breaux (Vice President)
  • Shannon Horton (2nd Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Megan Hereford (President)
  • Jen Breaux (Vice President)
  • Shannon Horton (2nd Vice President)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Virginia Women In Wine engages in activities to strengthen the wine industry by creating women-led cooperative marketing ventures, providing networking opportunities to individuals engaged in the wine industry that lead to generally improved winery operations and career advancement for its members.

What it reported doing in 2025

VWW Launch event - August 6, 2024. 160 attendees attended a celebration to launch Virginia Women in Wine at Eastwood Winery. VWW funders were acknowledged, members and potential members networked, and several industry icons received awards. Trailblazer Awards - three industry icons received the VWW Trailblazer Awards, illustrating several career path opportunities and highlighting the achievements of women in the Virginia wine industry. Closing the Gender Gap in Winemaking - a white paper that reveals the lack of women winemakers in Virginia was commissioned and research-gathering interviews began with three dozen women winemakers, winery owners, and others in the industry. (The paper was published in January 2025.) Harvest Party Dinner - October 20, 2024. Twenty-one VWW members attended a networking dinner at Southwest Mountain Vineyards, where a facilitated session provided opportunities to discuss operational challenges and solutions. Wine Women Weekend - Nov 2-3, 2024. VWW's statewide marketing event, Women in Wine Weekend Holidays Kickoff, sent hundreds of new customers to 35 participating VWW member wineries, where they enjoyed women-in-wine workshops, craft fairs, special holiday tasting flights, and lots more. Our high-visibility social media promotion (funded through a grant from Virginia Wine Marketing) reached over a quarter-million wine fans on Facebook and Instagram

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 26
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 57
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 23.9%; rating input score 24
  • Program expense ratio: 28%; rating input score 28

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 14.4%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -61.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -27.4% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 23.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 23.9% of revenue deployed · 28% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $12K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 24/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 28/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.