Women in Need
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330676865
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Newport Beach, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9497177248
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Counseling
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $654,699
- Expenses
- $669,387
- Assets
- $186,827
- Liabilities
- $1,010,019
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TRACY KEMBLE (PRESIDENT)
- LAURA SLIFER (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- TRACY KEMBLE (PRESIDENT): $36,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Win is a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation that specializes in personal and emotional empowerment and restoration. From abuse recovery, to self-esteem & emotional healing, to destiny management (creating your dreams, visions and purpose), we provide programs of recovery and empowerment that will teach women how to become their personal best. Win is committed in educating, inspiring, preventing and empowering. We accomplish this by providing the highest quality recovery programs, conferences, training programs. Our goal is to repair, restore and prevent lives from being affected by abuse.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization held an estimated 152 reclaiming me recovery classes, quarterly teacher training weekends, 56 monday morning motivation accountability courses, and 175 one-on-one sessions with individuals domestically. The courses included 1) how not to care what people think, 2) breaking up with anxiety, 3) the journey to self-love, 4) from narcissistic abuse to self-love. Class materials and webinars are made available on the organization's web site. Phone counseling is also available for the benefits of which were repair, restore and prevent lives from being affected by abuse. Approximately 10,000 individuals attended these classes and took advantage of the organization web site, the materials and phone counseling during the year. The organization also launched a new program called the feminine boss academy where they provided empowerment programs for young entrepreneurs.the organization also held various conferences internationally, which include 1) 3 conferences of empowerment and training in greece where over 105 ladies from around the globe were in attendance. These annual conferences are 5 days, 4 nights events, 2) semi-annual european training meeting of its mrs. Globe european directors in greece, (3) a 4 day selection for the training of european brand managers in greece, (4) outreach assistance to brand managers in ukraine, and (5) 61 reclaiming me classes, 7 training sessions, and 1 empowerment conference.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.7%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 84.8%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.2%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 5.41; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.7% of revenue deployed · 84.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $568K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $36K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 13 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.