Womens Search Network Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 992860209
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Menlo Park, CA, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $132,662
- Expenses
- $104,811
- Assets
- $56,977
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sara Rosenthal (Co-President)
- Lacey Wismer (Co-President)
People named in this filing
- Sara Rosenthal (Co-President)
- Lacey Wismer (Co-President)
- Ryan Robinson (Treasurer)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Womens Search Network Foundation was founded to encourage more women to consider entrepreneurship through acquisition as a viable career path and to support female searchers and CEOs as they strive for the highest levels of success. In furtherance of this mission the Womens Search Network Foundation hosts webinars podcasts and in-person events.
What it reported doing in 2025
To provide education and support to our members as they consider entrepreneurship through acquisition search for a company to acquire or operate a company they already acquired. Our programming provides opportunities for our members to interact and learn from each other as well as outside resources that we procure. We published several podcast episodes in 2024. We also held in-person events at Harvard Business School Stanford Business School Wharton Business School Kellogg Business School and other locations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
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: 21%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 37.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 64.7% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.