Without Walls Community Development Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831445702
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Senior Citizens' Housing/Retirement Communities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $75,000
- Expenses
- $130,635
- Assets
- $11,138
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- REV HENRY L DAVIS (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- REV HENRY L DAVIS (President & CEO)
- REV ARNOLD TOWNSEND (Secretary)
- ALAN GLENN (Executive Dir.)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Wowcdcs purpose is to develop affordable housing and to provide housing-related community support services for families in the western addition and fillmore neighborhoods in san francisco the most underserved and underinvested communities in the city.
What it reported doing in 2025
Without walls community development corporation (wow-cdc) partnered with the mohcd and the mission economic development agency (meda) in the affordable housing market to save a 6-unit building in the wa from outside investors by using the ssp. The outside investors planned to ellis act the building, evict the residents, renovate it, adding two units, and re-open it at market rents. Of the six tenants, five are african-american, five are seniors. If evicted, the tenants would have had to leave san francisco. By purchasing the building from the investors, our group allowed these residents to remain in the city. Theyll return to their units upon renovation completion with two added units of affordable housing. Racial equity and economic inclusion were provided to 5 residents and maybe 7. 8 units of housing were added to the affordable housing stock ad infinitem, providing equity and inclusion on an ongoing basis.the organization began partnering with mccormick, baron salazar on the complete rebuilding of the plaza east development complex. Plaza east is a 193-unit affordable housing complex in the western addition that was first built in the 1970s. The complex was rehabilitated in 2001. However, despite the rehab work the development has experienced significant challenges. The developer has gained the right to rebuild the entire complex. Wowcdc agreed to partner with the developer to provide community support. Its role is to work with the residents and the developer to ensure the needs of the residents are heard and addressed by the developer.
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. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.9%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 56.2%; rating input score 56
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -74.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 91.9%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.9% of revenue deployed · 56.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $73K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.