Wider Opportunities for Womeninc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
520818450
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2015
Forms available
Form 990 2015
Location
Gambrills, MD, USA
Phone
2028301885
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$494,760
Expenses
$2,452,585
Assets
$152,228
Liabilities
$275,859

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • AMANDA ANDERE (PRESIDENT/CEO)
  • SHAWN MCMAHON (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • AMANDA ANDERE (PRESIDENT/CEO): $138,260 total reported compensation
  • SHAWN MCMAHON (VICE PRESIDENT): $84,372 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Wider opportunities for women (wow)performs research, training and policy advocacy with partners across the country, and in its home community of Washington, dc, to provide equal opportunity and pathways to economic security for women, elders and their families.

What it reported doing in 2015

The opportunities for women in nontraditional employment (owne) initiative assisted 18 partner job training programs across the country in building strategic and targeted practices and policies for the recruitment, enrollment, retention, and placement of women in fields traditionally dominated by men, such as the building trades, advanced manufacturing, and logistics. The greater national center for women's employment equity offered technical assistance and events to help a wide range of industry partners, workforce development systems, community colleges, job training programs and community groups to build inclusive workforce and training practices.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 89% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 49% for direct work, and 51% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 75
  • Sustainability: 6
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 96.1%; rating input score 96
  • Fundraising efficiency: $20.69 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -395.7%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.81; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.1%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -9.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 13 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $138K · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2010 to 2015
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 13 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.