Wind Beneath My Wings Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020549182
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Clifton Park, NY, USA
- Phone
- 8456594112
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $571,500
- Expenses
- $497,875
- Assets
- $375,000
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Angel K Williams (Head Facilitator & Trainer): $45,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The primary purposes and mission of the Organization is to engage in community building by supporting the personal development of individuals and facilitating self empowerment by promoting self awareness, health, leadership and life skills and by providing educational support to social justice and economic development initiatives.
What it reported doing in 2022
The Organization's new initiatives have promoted and supported the Radical Dharma Program which offers and nourishes contemplative, healing and embodied skills of its participants. The Radical Dharma Program objectives is to enhance life skills and resources for its participants. This Program has coordinated and facilitated three (3) different land based five (5) day retreats led by Rev. Angel at (a) the Hollyhock Retreat Center on Cortes Island, BC (June 2022), (b) the Drala Mountain Center in Red Feather Lakes, CO and (c) the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, NY (September 2022).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 51% for direct work, and 49% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 78%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $61.78 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
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: 13.2%; rating input score 13; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 12.9%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 82.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 147.5% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68% of revenue deployed · 78% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $388K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $45K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 41 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 13/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.