Women's Voices Raised for Social Justice
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 113786727
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- St Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3147300471
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,556
- Expenses
- $87,977
- Assets
- $45,549
- Liabilities
- $1,718
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LIZ SONDHAUS (PAST PRESIDENT)
- KAREN FRANCIS (PRESIDENT)
- JEAN CALANDRINO (VICE PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
- BRYNA WILLIAMS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- LIZ SONDHAUS (PAST PRESIDENT)
- ANNE LITWIN (RACIAL JUSTICE DIRECTOR)
- MARGERY DOSS (ADVOCACY DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Education and advocacy on social justice issues.
What it reported doing in 2024
Advocacy: the committee took positions on legislative and ballot issues. In addition, we regularly collaborate with other local organizations on shared causes, including, Missouri voter protection coalition, reform st. Louis, empower Missouri, jobs with justice, league of women voters, national council of jewish women, and american association of university women Missouri. Women's voices members participated in events, including vigil for democracy, interfaith vigil to save children's lives and the st. Louis abortion rights rally, and marching in support of voting rights with alliance for interracial dignity, north webster neighborhood coalition, st. Louis area voter protection coalition, and the league of women voters. Additionally, members assembled voter registration packets that were distributed to likely unregistered voters, and mailed postcards encouraging voters to get to the polls. The racial justice committee continued to work to raise public awareness and increase collaborative partnerships through the expanded work of the attainable housing task force and the criminal legal reform task force. A major focus of the criminal legal system reform task force was working in support of a clean slate bill in mo, including a lunch and learn on this topic and encouraging members to lobby representatives to pass a bill at the state level. The attainable housing task force continued to work in the kirkwood area specifically. In addition, committee activities included hosting lunch and learn programs with shed (sustainable housing & equitable development); builds accessible, inclusive communities; habitat for humanity; women's voices collaborated with Washington university brown school center for social development and alliance for interracial dignity to host an affordable housing conference with area leaders where student researchers presented historical context of housing disparities, challenged common myths regarding affordable housing, and presented policy ideas to support housing options for all.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.5%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 65.9%; rating input score 66
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 70.9%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -14.1% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.5% of revenue deployed · 65.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $58K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.