Without My Consent
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 275557309
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Liberties
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,363
- Expenses
- $28,097
- Assets
- $83,636
- Liabilities
- $280
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Colette Vogele (President)
People named in this filing
- Colette Vogele (President)
- Cynthia Wu (Director)
- Marcia Hofmann (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Without My Consent is a non-profit organization seeking to combat online invasions of privacy. The resources found here are intended to empower individuals to stand up for their privacy rights and inspire meaningful debate about the internet, accountability, free speech, and the serious problem of online invasions of privacy.
What it reported doing in 2018
Project:50-State ProjectVictims in digital domestic abuse cases want to know if: (1) they can sue the perpetrator(s) and/or report the abuse to law enforcement, (2) bringing suit would exacerbate their injuries given that litigation records could appear online, and (3) the court system would permit them to sue under a pseudonym. The 50-State Project will be a concise yet comprehensive resource answering these questions for every state (as well as for the federal courts) so that these questions are no longer barriers to the pursuit of civil and criminal remedies.Project: Something Can Be Done! GuideThe Something Can Be Done! Guide delivered in an FAQ-styled template to WMCs resources page will describe legal strategies to combat non-consensual distribution of nude photos in small claims, family, state, and federal courts. This project will serve digital abuse victims because we have cutting edge information to share short cuts and tricks of the trade that should help make revenge porn remedies obtainable by ordinary people, not just celebrities and those who can spend six figures litigating against a judgment-proof defendant. The defendants in digital domestic abuse cases are usually low income or judgment proof; spending money (which we have seen can exceed $60,000) to litigate rarely makes sense for victims. For too long, victims have been told nothing can be done at every turn. And that is simply untrue. WMC wants victims and their supporters to know everything that can be done on every level to combat non-consensual porn.Project: Lawyer Training ProgramWithout My Consent will develop and teach a half-day workshop on non-consensual porn law. The workshop will cover: Civil law and how to tee up a criminal case: We will use actual cases, hypotheticals, and practitioner documents to take the participants through a complicated non-consensual porn scenario that draws on expertise related to complaint drafting, restraining orders against online abuse, the filing of pseudonymous civil suits, the unmasking of anonymous defendants, the application of copyright law, and the role of intermediaries. We will teach attendees how to tee up a criminal case and how the civil and criminal sides can work together to support each others work. The course will include practice pointers on working with victims, setting expectations about the legal process, and understanding the ethical issues in digital abuse cases.How to work with intermediaries to facilitate takedowns: The course will include the most current information on how tech companies and law enforcement work together to facilitate takedowns.Criminal law: The course will include sample subpoenas, applications for search warrants, and possibly scripts/role play regarding the exploitation of nude photos in cases investigated and prosecuted in real life.WMCs training will be national in scope. WMC welcomes and will seek out opportunities to work with law enforcement and prosecutors to collaborate on these trainings. In the future, WMC may seek additional funding to develop Train the Trainer workshops so our lawyer training program can be scaled to jurisdictions across the country.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 60%; rating input score 60
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1,089%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.98; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -33.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 60% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $17K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2015 to 2018
- 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.
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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.