Women Donors Network
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 050542397
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4158141333
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,733,027
- Expenses
- $18,220,334
- Assets
- $11,632,694
- Liabilities
- $911,537
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LEENA BARAKAT (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- LEENA BARAKAT (PRESIDENT & CEO): $266,193 total reported compensation
- TAMARA CHAO (VP, LEARNING & IMPACT): $185,546 total reported compensation
- ERIN ROSSITTO (CHIEF OF STAFF): $181,753 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 donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.
What it reported doing in 2024
Grantmaking: wdn funded 142 organizations and projects through its grantmaking program in 2024. The organization's grantmaking included funding through several initiatives called impact collectives, which are designed to enable the organization's donors to learn and fund collaboratively in several overarching strategic areas, including a safe and sustainable future, participation and representation, and opportunity and equality. Wdn also continued grantmaking through the abc fund, which seeks to advance reproductive justice and ensure enduring legal access to abortion care in the us. Finally, the organization made rapid response grants to provide aid to communities facing urgent needs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 81% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.1%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 87.6%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $44.68 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: 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: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.7%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.6%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.1% of revenue deployed · 87.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $16M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $266K · 21 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $658K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 150 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 142 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.