Women's Foundation of California
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942752421
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Oakland, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5107402500
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,222,979
- Expenses
- $7,454,515
- Assets
- $18,068,117
- Liabilities
- $762,356
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
32 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- SURINA KHAN (FORMER DIRECTOR): $403,839 total reported compensation
- BEATRIZ VIEIRA (CHIEF EXECTUTIVE OFFICER): $359,784 total reported compensation
- CHRISTINE REYES (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $322,794 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Women's foundation of California amplifies the voices and experiences of community leaders, redistributes knowledge, power, and resources, and mobilizes communities and funders to advance justice for all.
What it reported doing in 2024
Policy advocacy: the dr. Beatriz maria solis policy institute (spi) amplifies the voices of California women through a year-long training program in state and county public policymaking. Fellows of diverse backgrounds and experiences work in teams and are paired with a mentor to implement important legislative projects. To date, spi has trained more than 600 advocates and local leaders and helped pass more than 50 new statewide laws and local policies improving californians' health, safety and economic well-being. The spi alum network forms a statewide community of strong, savvy, passionate leaders who are helping to form policies, laws and budgets that support our political, social and economic lives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 63% for direct work, and 37% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 97
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.9%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 71.2%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.7%; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95.5%; rating input score 95; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.42; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 34.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.9% of revenue deployed · 71.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 22 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $404K · 32 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 71 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 60 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.