Wonder Aloud
Legal name: Women of Wonder Wow Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453705920
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
- Phone
- 6463278297
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Interfaith Coalitions
- Affiliation
- Interfaith
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $201,585
- Expenses
- $153,224
- Assets
- $172,959
- Liabilities
- $5,615
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Erika Lee (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Erika Lee (Executive Director): $48,510 total reported compensation
- Manni Lee (Community Care Director): $45,588 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Wonder Aloud accompanies people in their journeys toward spiritual wholeness through sacred curiosity, care, and contemplative prayer. Based in NYC, Wonder Aloud is led by a team whose spiritual care offerings have been shaped by over two decades of their lived experience of ministering in diverse urban communities through a myriad of church and parachurch roles. Wonder Aloud began as WOW! in 2012 in NYC when Rev. Dr. Grace May saw the need to support and empower people through biblical teaching that dares them to soar with God as they are awaken to the truth that God wholeheartedly supports their dreams—dreams God planted in them and calls them to fulfill. In 2024, WOW! evolved into Wonder Aloud, reflecting both a fresh identity and a deepened focus on contemplative work. While the name change represents a new phase for th.
What it reported doing in 2025
Spiritual formation support and contemplative care for churches, organizations, and leadership teams in urban settings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 63.6%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.68 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.13; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 61.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -16.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 49% of revenue deployed · 63.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $97K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $49K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 24/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.