Visible Figures
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871345642
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7038354254
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $132,827
- Expenses
- $131,178
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $8,911
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stephanie Lampkin (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Stephanie Lampkin (Executive Director)
- Tiffany Dufu (Treasurer)
- Julia Collins (Secretary)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Visible Figures provides education, enrichment, and general support for marginalized and underrepresented women entrepreneurs. This demographic of entrepreneurs is least likely to receive venture capital, credit, loans, or grants. This disproportionate access to capital leads to significantly negative wealth (net worth), physical health (heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, auto-immune disorders), and mental health outcomes (depression, GAD, PTSD). Visible Figures provides safes spaces on- and off-line for community members to fellowship and revenue-generating opportunities for small business owners.
What it reported doing in 2024
Procurement - in 2024, Visible Figures listed 459 MWBEs in our directory made available to 3rd party procurement officials that source small business owners for everything from paid speaking engagements to small consulting contracts. Additionally, we paid $17,618 to over a dozen MWBEs supporting our programs and events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.9%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 77.9%; rating input score 78
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.2%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 67.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 150% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 43.8% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -150% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.9% of revenue deployed · 77.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $102K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.