Wedding International Professionals Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263026750
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Marietta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 8444449300
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $942,975
- Expenses
- $830,981
- Assets
- $1,202,001
- Liabilities
- $637,517
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRIS LAVOIE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CHRIS LAVOIE (PRESIDENT)
- JACQUELINE VIZCAINO (VICE PRESIDE)
- KELLIE JACKSTIEN (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission as the wedding industry professionals association (wipa) is to foster excellence in the wedding industry through comprehensive education, dynamic networking opportunities, and (continued on schedule o)
What it reported doing in 2024
Support of local wipa chapters, educational meetings, and networking events to inspire and further the development of the wedding industry. Wipa supports chapters in 22 local locations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 27% for direct work, 13% for grants, and 60% for affiliated organizations.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 18
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 18.9%; rating input score 19
- Program expense ratio: 21.5%; rating input score 21
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 53.2%; rating input score 53; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.9%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.45; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.53; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 18.9% of revenue deployed · 21.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $178K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $296K reported
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 19/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 53/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.