Womens Small Business Accelerator
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 455625057
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Dublin, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6144142449
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Small Business Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $298,789
- Expenses
- $285,263
- Assets
- $90,259
- Liabilities
- $121,720
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARY MCCARTHY (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
People named in this filing
- CINDI ENGLEFIELD (SECRETARY)
- SUE KANTOR (OUTREACH CHAIR)
- TERESA RUSSELL (PAST BOARD CHAIR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The women's small business accelerator was formed to help all women business owners, regardless of net worth or education level, achieve their business ownership dreams through empathy, mentoring, and education, thereby improving their lives and our economy through business growth and job creation.
What it reported doing in 2024
Women's leadership conference - an annual leadership event providing leadership skills and networking opportunities. The women's leadership conference is a partnership with brady ware & company a national accounting firm, and the better business bureau of central Ohio. Together the event provides 15 breakout sessions, 2 keynote speakers, networking throughout the day, as well as breakfast, lunch and a cocktail hour at the end of the day. Event had 270 attendees.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 70% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 83% 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
MIXED - 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: 20
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 21.5%; rating input score 22
- Program expense ratio: 22.5%; rating input score 23
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.5%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.35; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 21.5% of revenue deployed · 22.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $64K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 22/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.