Women's Empowerment
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030520643
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9166692307
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adult, Continuing Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,143,335
- Expenses
- $2,338,370
- Assets
- $2,293,514
- Liabilities
- $573,458
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBIN KELLY-DUNTON (PRESIDENT)
- LESLIE MEDINA (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- LISA CULP (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- LISA CULP (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $140,332 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of women's empowerment is to educate and empower women who are homeless with the skills and the confidence necessary to get a job, create a healthy lifestyle, and regain a home for themselves and their children.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, we provided wrap-around services to 745 unduplicated women and their children. (576 women and 169 children) each woman begins with our comprehensive nine-week employment readiness and empowerment program. She receives transportation assistance so she can successfully arrive every day on time, and childcare for her children ages 0-5 in our on-site child development center. She works one-on-one with her social worker, employment specialist, housing specialist, and volunteer career mentor while attending classes on job readiness, financial capabilities, and computer skills, many taught by our over 500 skilled community volunteers. She may also attend our afternoon groups on cooking and nutrition, parenting, wellness and recovery, and domestic violence. She can also work out weekly at the gym across the street.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.3%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.74 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st 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: 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.98; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.3% of revenue deployed · 80.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $140K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.