Women Leaders in Law Enforcement Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 880849564
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9165056554
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $18,345
- Expenses
- $27,323
- Assets
- $56,521
- Liabilities
- $75
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Alana Forrest (President)
- Cindy Pontes (Vice President)
- Leslie McGill (Executive Director Emeritus)
- Sara Edmonds (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Alana Forrest (President)
- Cindy Pontes (Vice President)
- Cristal Sanchez (Secretary)
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
The Women Leaders in Law Enforcement Foundation is dedicated to advancing and empowering women in law enforcement, fostering their professional growth, leadership development, and wellbeing. We are committed tofostering an inclusive environment that transcends ranks and sworn status, equipping women with the necessary tools, knowledge, and guidance to excel in their roles. By doing so, we aim to fortify community trust and continuously strive to improve the police profession.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Foundation was incorporated in January of 2022 and started raising funds in August of 2022. The Foundation has established five scholarships that are awarded to women to attend the WLLE Training Symposium valued up to $2,500 each. The Foundation also developed a leadership award that is presented in September and a mentoring program with 29 mentors and a growing number of mentees. The Foundation presented four virtual training seminars with a total of 101 attendees during the year. The Foundation's purpose is to to engage in educational, training, and mentoring activities for women in law enforcement, regardless of rank or sworn status, that will benefit the public by enhacing community trust and police legitimacy. Accomplishments for 2025: Offered 5 Scholarships Provided Monthly Training Provided Support for Chapters Provided mentor and mentee opportunities
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 42% for direct work, and 58% for grants.
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: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -48.9%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.07; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -37.7% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.7% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $24K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.