Women at Risk International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770664609
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Wyoming, MI, USA
- Phone
- 6168550796
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,069,567
- Expenses
- $1,963,597
- Assets
- $5,648,409
- Liabilities
- $117,840
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- REBECCA MCDONALD (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- REBECCA MCDONALD (PRESIDENT): $102,030 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Women at risk, international unites & educates to create circles of protection and hope around those at risk through culturally sensitive value-added intervention projects. War works with partners in over 60 countries to help those at risk live & work with dignity & hope.
What it reported doing in 2024
War educates people about risk issues, such as human trafficking, in order to move them to unite. War organizes a biannual circle tour, educating travelers and bringing love and support to people around the world. War advocates its cause through various speaking engagements and conferences and before a variety of organizations such as universities, medical professionals, publicly traded companies, governmental agencies, civic groups, and other nonprofit organizations, and sends printed educational materials across the united states. War sends out a newsletter to 35,000 names on its mailing list and electronic newsletters to 30,000 people.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 85% 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.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 80
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.9%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th 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: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.1%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.88; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.9% of revenue deployed · 82.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $102K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.