Womens Transportation Seminar
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 930911107
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5039133441
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,903
- Expenses
- $123,249
- Assets
- $59,202
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lisa Patterson (past President)
- Shilpa Mallem (President)
- Alee Langford (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Lisa Patterson (past President)
- Shilpa Mallem (President)
- Alee Langford (Vice President)
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 exempt purpose of the organization is to further career opportunities for women in the field of transportation. The organization is a local chapter of the Women's Transportation Seminar, an international organization with a mission of building the future of transportation through the global advancement of women. All activities are conducted by volunteers who are members of the organization. The primary activities of the organization are providing professional development, industry education events, mentoring to students and young professionals, and networking opportunities for members within their local business community.
What it reported doing in 2025
WTS Portland hosts monthly programs that facilitate member interaction with distinguished industry speakers, benefiting over three hundred participants each year. WTS Portland operates a website to promote event programming, networking events, and local industry information to those in the transportation industry in its local area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 61% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 81% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -20.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 32.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -15.1% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $123K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 23 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.