Women Beyond Borders
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 825134645
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2025
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2677560400
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $266,000
- Expenses
- $258,985
- Assets
- $9,262
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SAPPHO FULTON (CEO PROGRAM DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- SAPPHO FULTON (CEO PROGRAM DIRECTOR)
- CASSANDRA SIMMS (CO CHAIR)
- CECILIA VALASQUEZ (POLICY 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To resore lives and build community by providing lgbtq+ individuals with affirming housing, reentry support, wellness care, advocacy and year-round connection.
What it reported doing in 2025
Fuse prerelease works within the correctional system to identify women in need of education and housing upon release
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 24
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 44.9%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 46.1%; rating input score 46
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: 2.6%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 44.9% of revenue deployed · 46.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $120K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.