Women Religious Archives Collaborative

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
882485236
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Cleveland, OH, USA
Phone
2162875176
Rating
63
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$7,346,377
Expenses
$446,154
Assets
$18,736,505
Liabilities
$337,236

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SISTER SUSAN DURKIN (OSU AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • SISTER SUSAN DURKIN (OSU AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $75,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Wrac will serve as a permanent repository for the archives of catholic women religious congregations to keep the mission, charism, and history of women religious alive by providing a dynamic space open for research and programming.

What it reported doing in 2024

Wrac purchased a parcel of land adjacent to downtown cleveland and broke ground for the heritage center in july 2025. We are now at 15% construction completion. To date 45 congregations of catholic sisters from across the united states and canada have signed legal agreements to partner with wrac. Wrac will have the capacity to take more collections and is consistently fielding new inquiries. Congregations will bring their archival collections under roof once the facility opens in spring 2027. Wrac has been working with partner congregations to prepare their collections prior to the move to understand their contents to make records and stories available for research and to the public. Wrac is currently designing a state-of-the-art exhibit space that will be open to the public to learn (continued on schedule o) about the life and service of catholic sisters.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 29
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 87
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 6.1%; rating input score 6
  • Program expense ratio: 51%; rating input score 51
  • Fundraising efficiency: $59.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 93.9%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 42; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 91.4% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 56.4% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 84.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 6.1% of revenue deployed · 51% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $227K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $75K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 6/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.