Women of Banglatown

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
823615147
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Detroit, MI, USA
Rating
56
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community, Neighborhood Development

Reported finances

Revenue
$133,804
Expenses
$118,795
Assets
$215,274

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Abir Ali (Board Chair)
  • Salma Ali (Board Treasurer)
  • Allison Lapetina (Board 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

Women of Banglatown WOB is a neighborhood-based community arts organization that provides a supportive culturally-sensitive space for arts and well-being programming for first generation and immigrant girls and young women 10-26 years of age from the Banglatown neighborhood of Detroit and Hamtramck.

What it reported doing in 2025

Michigan Arts and Culture Council MACC 1 supported operating staff 2 facility improvements included signage outdoor kitchen space and architecture fees 3 served over 200 people Center for Arab American Philanthropy CAAP 1 supported staff and grant writing Neighborhood Beautification Program 1 Installed garden beds 2 hired three gardeners to design and implement first phase of landscaping 3 built a fence

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 20
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 57
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 18.5%; rating input score 19
  • Program expense ratio: 20.9%; rating input score 21

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.2%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.81; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -8.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 26% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 18.5% of revenue deployed · 20.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 19/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 21/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.