Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture & Natural Resource Man

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
300306056
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Kailua Kona, HI, USA
Phone
8084641703
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Agricultural Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$624,518
Expenses
$891,288
Assets
$547,684
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jeannette Gurung (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Jeannette Gurung (Executive Director): $103,333 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To advance women's empowerment and gender equality to tackle climate change, food insecurity and poverty within enabling environments. WOCAN strengthens capacities of organizations and individuals for gender integration and leadership. It owns and maintains the W+ Standard to measure, quantify, certify and monetize women's empowerment benefits within projects, generating revenue for women's groups and organizations.

What it reported doing in 2025

Outreach and Marketing: WOCAN held various events to share knowledge about the W+ Standard. The W+ Coordinator and ED held meetings with over 42 organizations interested to apply the W+ Standard. WOCAN organized 2 events at NY Climate Week, and 3 at the COP30 in Brazil. Staff participated in several webinars as speakers on gender and climate. This program includes fees of marketing consultant and Knowledge Management staff to prepare materials, update and maintain 2 websites, and share news with social media and monthly digests, blog posts and podcasts. In addition, this year a communications and marketing team in NYC was hired to develop marketing materials and hire a press consultant that resulted in coverage by CNN and others. The W+ website was re-designed as an e-commerce site to sell W+ credits from selected projects.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 50
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 80.5%; rating input score 81
  • Fundraising efficiency: $3.53 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

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: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • 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: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -42.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.6%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $718K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $103K · 4 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $375K reported
  • Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes foreign activity
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2009 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 10/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.